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Category: Image Display

On an SGI workstation, there are many programs to display images and PostScript documents. For images, the programs xv, display and ipaste are some of the more popular ones. Ipaste can display SGI's rgb format and it does so very fast. Display and xv can handle many different image formats.

For PostScript documents, xpsview and ghostview work quite well.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop allows you to create color images and edit all or part of an existing images. With Photoshop you can add text, change the color balance, replace colors, change the brightness, blur or sharpen, and adjust an image or part of an image in hundreds of different ways. Photoshop can also resize or change the resolution of an image. It is the most powerful image manipulation tool at the Institute. Documentation is available on line (within the program) and via the web from Adobe.

Photoshop supports many image formats. These include PHOTOSHOP, BMP, PICT, EPS, PCS, GIF, JPEG, PIXAR, RAW, PNG, SCITEX, TARGA, and TIFF. For best results on images produced on an SGI workstation, convert them to TIFF and then scp them to the Macintosh for use in Photoshop. Likewise, in Photoshop, save images in the TIFF format, before sending them to an SGI workstation.

PhotoShop can also be used on m1 to scan images or documents using the Epson Scanner plugin (under Import on the File menu).

Version: 7.0
Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
System(s): The Macintosh m1 & m2
Categories:Image Display, Image Processing, Visualization

Amira

Description

Amira is an interactive visualization package with support for scripting and batch use. It includes tools for working with:
  • 3D and 2D image data processing and segmentation
  • Chemistry visualization (AmiraMol extension)
  • Volume rendering
  • Surface reconstruction and simplification
  • Tetrahedral grid generation
  • Animation
  • General visualization and data exploration

    • To use Amira, type:

    module load AMIRA

    Amira is stared by typing:

    amira


    More Information

    Amira tutorial - Introductory tutorial for Amira.
    Amira Tools - A collection of scripts for creating animation and various other functions as well as examples of data, nets and miscellaneous scripts.
    User's Guide - On line user guide from the vendor.
    Version 3.0 Release Notes - Detailed list of modifications and new features.


    Version: 3.1
    Labs: Basic Sciences Computing Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
    System(s): All SGI workstations in VWL, BSCL and SDVL, All Sun workstations in SDVL and VWL, bs1 in BSCL
    Categories: Visualization, Animation, Data Analysis, Image Display, Image Processing, Isosurfaces, Vector Fields, Volume Rendering

    DVD Studio Pro

    Description

    DVD Studio Pro is a full featured DVD editing package for producing movie DVD's. It features:

    DVD Studio Pro works in conjuntion with Final Cut Pro (i.e. editing, transitions, effects, etc.) and the final results can be written to DVD media with Toast.

    More Information

    DVD Studio Pro web site

    Version: DVD Studio Pro 1.5.1
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
    System(s): Dual processor Macintosh G4 in SDVL (m2.msi.umn.edu)
    Categories: Animation, Image Display

    Ghostscript/Ghostview/GV

    Ghostscript (gs) is an interpreter for PostScript. It can be used to translate Postscript to other formats. More often, it is used by other programs to convert a PostScript document to another format and its use is transparent to the user (e.g. The image display programs xv and display use ghostscript). For more information, see the ghostscript man page (man gs).

    Rather than using ghostscript directly, ghostview is often used instead. Ghostview provides a user X11 user interface to ghostscript. From ghostview, you can view a PostScript document or image, and save or print selected pages. For more information, see the ghostview man page (man ghostview).

    The program is an X11 userinterface to ghostscript

    Version: Ghostview: 1.5, Ghostscript 2.6.2 (Med-Chem) Alladin Ghostscript 5.50 (SDVL, BSCL), gv 3.5.8
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all UNIX workstations
    Categories:Image Processing, Image Display

    ImageMagick

    ImageMagick is a collection of programs to display, manipulate and convert images from one format to another. It can handle many different image formats, including PostScript, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PICT,and SGI's rgb. The following table briefly describes each ImageMagick program. For more information, see the man page for ImageMagick ( man imagemagick) or the man page for the specific program (e.g. man display).

    To run ImageMagick you must load the imageproc module. 

    module load imageproc

    Program Uses Include:
    display Display an image, interactivel manipulplate colors and color map, reflect, rotate, resize, crop, annotate, convert format.
    montage Create a tiling of several images.
    convert Convert from one image format to another.
    mogrify Transforms an image or sequence of images. Trahsformations include resizing, rotation, color reduction.
    animate Display a sequence of images
    import Capture all or part of the screen.
    combine Combine two or more images
    segment segments an image by analyzing the histograms of the color components and identifying units that are homogeneous with the fuzzy c-means technique.
    identify Print out information about the image (Size, type, ...).

    Version: 5.2.9
    Labs: IBM SP, Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display, Image Processing,Animation

    Imgworks, Imgview, Imgcopy, Imginfo, and Imgformats

    A collection of tools for displaying, converting and manipulating images. Unlike most image manipulation software, Imgworks and imgview allow adjustments to the color balance by interactively manipulating the red, blue and green components. Formats are somewhat limited. The current release supports FIT,SGI, JFIF, TIFF, GIF and PhotoCD(read only). See the individual man pages for more information (e.g. man imgworks).

    Imgworks is used to interactively manipulate images. With imgworks, you can rotate, reflect, crop and resize an image. You can also convert color to monochrome, adjust the contrast, color balance and saturation. Imgworks can also be used to convert an image to GIF. While converting, the number of colors can be reduced or a transparent background can be interactively added.

    Imgview is used to view an image. It can also be used to adjust red, blue and green color components, and to convert image formats.

    Imgcopy converts an image from one format to another. Imginfo displays information about the image, including size and color model. Imgformats just lists the available formats.

    Version:Imgworks: 2.2(SDVL) 2.3(BSCL), Imgview: 2.1
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories:Image Display, Image Processing

    Ipaste, Iblend, blend, Iflip, Iroll,
    Izoom, Iave, Invert, Imean and, Istat

    A collection of basic tools for the display and manipulation of SGI's RGB images. See the individual man pages for more information (e.g. man ipaste).

    ProgramFunction
    ipaste Displays an RGB image (nothing more)
    iblend Blend two RGB images using a mat
    blendBlend two RGB images (Linearly interpolate.)
    iflipFlip or rotate an RGB image
    irollRoll an RGB image horizontally and/or vertically
    izoom Resize an RGB image
    iave Averages a set of RGB images
    invert Inverts an RGB image. Pixels of value 0 become 255.
    imean Prints out the average pixel value of an RGB image
    istat Prints out information about an RGB image.

    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display, Image Processing

    Ivview, Ivcat,Ivfix, ...

    A collection of tools for displaying and converting Inventor files

    ProgramFunction
    ivview Displays an Inventor file
    ivcat Concatenates Inventor files. Converts from ASCII to binary Inventor, or binary to ASCII
    ivfix Restructures an Inventor object for improved performance
    ivinfo Prints out information about an Inventor file
    ivToVRML Converts Inventor files to VRML format.
    iv2toiv1 Converts an Inventor 2.0 file to Inventor 1.0
    ivdowngradeConverts an Inventor 2.0 file to Inventor 1.0

    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display, Image Processing

    MoviePlayer

    MoviePlayer will playback movies. It can handle several formats, including SGI's movie file formats, MPEG-1 movie files, and some files stored in the QuickTime file format Documentation is online through the insight library. Type insight to start, then double click on "Digital Media Tools Guide" for more information.

    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display, Animation

    Mpeg_play

    The program mpeg_play plays movies. Using the "-dither color" option is recommend for better looking images. The user interface is easy to use, but if you want more information, a man page is available describing further options (man mpeg_play)

    Version: 2.4
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all UNIX workstations
    Categories: Animation, Image Display

    NCSA Collage

    NCSA Collage is meant to be a collaborative tool using internetworks to share images, animations, text, and drawing tools on a chalkboard. It can also be used stand alone. NCSA Collage is executed with the command collage. It can accept HDF images for import and has a built in color editor for interactively pseudo-coloring the image data. NCSA Collage is also NCSA's replacement for XImage which has been deleted.

    Version: 1.3
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
    System(s): all Macintosh and SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display

    NIH Image

    NIH IMage is a public domain image processing package. It allows 24-bit color or gray-scale image enhancement, as well as a variety of data analysis options.

    Version: 1.62
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
    System(s): all Macintosh workstations
    Location: Applications:Data Analysis and Display:NIH Image
    Categories: Image Display, Image Processing, Data Analysis

    Ralcgm

    The program ralcgm displays Computer Graphics Metafiles (cgm files) and converts them to PostScript or to a binary encoding. For more information, see the ralcgm man page (man ralcgm).

    Version: 3.0
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    Categories:Image Processing, Image Display

    Raz/Xraz

    Raz is a GL based program for animating a series of raster or byte based pseudo-colored images using a user supplied color map which can be edited interactively. Raz is controlled by commands in a script file or by the program xraz which offers a Motif based Graphical User Interface (GUI). Raz and xraz allow varying the frame rate for animation, zooming the images, and adding a variable size border to make live recordings of the animations look more professional. Raz can play from memory or off disk. Man pages are available (man raz and man xraz).

    Version: 1.3
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Visualization, Image Display

    Note: Xraz crashes on i8, i9, and i11 when the color map is edited.

    Utah Raster Toolkit

    The Utah Raster Toolkit (URT) is a collection of programs and C routines for the manipulation, conversion and display of images. URT programs include programs that manipulate the color map, rotate or reflect and image, make a historgram of the image, manipulate the color map and scale the image. Man pages are available ( man urt, to get started).

    Version:
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display, Image Processing

    Viewmol

    VIEWMOL is a graphical front end for computational chemistry programs. It is able to graphically aid in the generation of molecular structures for computations and to visualize their results. The program s capabilities include:

    At present VIEWMOL includes input filters for DISCOVER, DMOL, GAUSSIAN 9X, GULP, MOPAC, and TURBOMOLE outputs as well as for PDB files (VIEWMOL is therefore suited as a viewer for structural data on the World Wide Web). Struc-tures can be saved as MSI car-files, MDL files, and TURBOMOLE coordinate files. VIEWMOL s file format has been added to BABEL so that BABEL can serve as an input as well as an output filter for coordinates.

    Setting up environment: module load viewmol
    Documentation: /usr/local/viewmol-2.2.1/lib/viewmol/man
    Examples: /usr/local/viewmol-2.2.1/lib/viewmol/examples

    Version: 2.2.1
    Labs: Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
    System(s): all SGI and IBM systems
    Categories:Chemistry, Molecular Modeling, Image Display, Image Processing

    Volocity

    Description

    Volocity is an interactive volume visualization system for time-resolved biomedical image data.. It includes tools for:
  • Fast and highly interactive volume exploration in 3D and 4D.
  • Export and publication of 3D images and data in standard file formats.
  • Volume rendering
  • Object classification, measurement and tracking in all dimensions.
  • Measurements from multiple channels for channel comparison and colocalization.
  • High quality restoration of confocal and wide field microscope images.
  • Animation template creation for prototypes

    • How to run Volocity

    Launch Volocity from the Start menu:
    A registration dialog shows up on starting for the first time. Click 'Server address' and enter the license server information. Next, enter your Volocity login information. If you do not have a username and password, contact help@msi.umn.edu to get your Volocity login details.

    Volocity access reservation

    In order to avoid license conflicts, there is a reservation facility available online at http://www.msi.umn.edu/cgi-bin/res/index.html This holds good for accessing the license on any system.

    More Information

    User's Guide - On line user guide from the vendor.
    Version Release Notes - Detailed list of modifications and new features.

    Version: 3.0.1
    Labs: Basic Sciences Computing Lab, Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Computational Genetics Laboratory
    System(s): Mac workstations in SDVL, PCs bpc1, bpc2 in BSCL, SDVLAPP1, PCs in CGL (One concurrent license)
    Categories: Visualization, Animation, Data Analysis, Image Display, Image Processing, Volume Rendering

    XV

    XV is used to display, manipulate and convert images from one format to another. XV reads and writes images in many formats including PostScript, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, and SGI's rgb. XV can be used to interactively resize, crop, reflect and rotate images. Documentation is in /usr/local/docs/xv.ps (ghostview /usr/local/docs/xv.ps).

    Version: 3.10a
    Labs: IBM SP, Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories:Image Display, Image Processing

    Xanim

    The program xanim displays animations on systems running X11. Xanim can display animations and images that no other package at the Supercomputing Institute can. Formats for xanim include GIF87a and GIF89a (both single and multiple images, DL animations, Amiga MovieSetter animagions, Utah Raster Toolkit's RLE anmimations, AVI animations, Quicktime animations, JFIF, MPEG and others. A man page is available (man xanim).

    Version: 2.70.7
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display, Animation

    Xloadimage

    Xloadimage is a program that allows people to view images on their display while using the X Window system. It supports the following many image file formats. For a complete list of supported types, refer to the man page (man xloadimage). A variety of options are available to modify images prior to viewing. These options include clipping, dithering, depth reduction, zoom (either X or Y axis independently or both at once), brightening or darkening, and image merging. When applicable, these options are done automatically (e.g., a color image to be displayed on a monochrome screen will be dithered automatically). This application also read Gaussian output.

    Version: 4.1
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Basic Sciences Computing Lab
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display, Image Processing

    Xpsview

    xpsview is an SGI PostScript previewer. It puts up a window and runs the user's PostScript code in it. xpsview uses a portion of the window that has the proper aspect ratio for a standard letter-size page in portrait orientation. If a PostScript-file is specified, the PostScript code is taken from that file. If no argument is given, or if a `-' is given as the argument, psview reads the PostScript from standard input. A man page is available (man xpsview)

    Version: 2.0.4
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab, Medicinal Chemistry/Supercomputing Institute Visualization-Workstation Laboratory
    System(s): all SGI workstations
    Categories: Image Display

    iView Media Pro

    Description

    iView MediaPro is a media management and cataloguing application for Mac OS X. You can use iView to import images directly from a digital camera, view, calibrate, organize, annotate, or backup media files. iView creates web sites, slide show presentations and QuickTime movies with your images, animations and audio soundtracks.

    Features:

    More Information

    Tour of iView Media Pro features
    iView MediaPro feature details

    Version: iView MediaPro 1.5.5
    Labs: Scientific Development and Visualization Lab
    System(s): MacIntosh SDVL (m2.msi.umn.edu)
    Categories: Animation, Image Display, Image Processing, Visualization, Miscellaneous

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