The NCSA Java 3D Group announces the availability of: NCSA Astro3D The NCSA Java3D group has been working with Dr. Raymond Plante of the Radio Astronomy Imaging Group to create Astro3D. NCSA Astro3D is a Java 3D tool that can visualize astronomy data files which have been created using radio astronomy telescopes. That data is changed into VRML 2.0 files by the Astronomy Data Image Library (ADIL) VRML server, written using VTK and Java by Paul Rajlich of the Visualization and Virtual Environments Group. Astro3D then reads the VRML 2.0 files using a Java VRML loader we've written. Astro3D allows astronomers to view these astronomy data sets, annotate them, request new subregions from ADIL VRML Server, and save them back out as VRML files, and save JPEG images of the resulting images using objects from the NCSA Portfolio library. Astro3D has been featured at Sun's booth at JavaOne 1998 and 1999. The NCSA Astro3D download comes with the source to the program, so you can learn from it and make modificiations to the program. If you make modifications, we'd like to hear about them. You can download Astro3D from: http://havefun.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Java3D/Astro3D/ ----- Steve Pietrowicz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project Manager - NCSA Java 3D Group NCSA Portfolio 1.3 beta 3: http://havefun.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Java3D/portfolio/ New Loaders, turn your Canvas3D into a JPEG, new InputDevices and more! You Build It VR: http://havefun.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Java3D/YouBuildItVR/ Build your own multi-user virtual worlds with no programming experience! The Java3D FAQ: http://tintoy.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~srp/java3d/faq.html Astro3D: Java 3D Astronomy - http://havefun.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Java3D/Astro3D/ =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
