> > I'm totally new to IBM OpenDX. I come to know that the software might able > to help me in my task, reconstructing 3d objects from 2d images. > Hereby, I'm > encountering difficulties in installing it on my PC (running on > Windows NT). > For your information, I haven't purchase Exceed yet. I would be glad if > anyone can provide me with the following information: > > 1. I was made aware that Exceed 6.2 is the prefered X servers > program. Where > can I download a trial version for the software(if available)? Is > there any > other downloadable X servers software that I can use?
Exceed cannot be downloaded. You can get a 60 day Trial version of CD from http://www.hummingbird.com or http://www.unipress.com. The Trial version is available only to Industrial users. They do not provide Trial version to academic users, as I read at unipress URL. You can get any X-server. Most should work > > 2. At the IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer website, it is > said that for > Windows, cygwin is need to run IBM OpenDX but this is not mentioned at all > at OpenDX.org. Instead, OpenDX.org introduced Exceed. I had downloaded IBM > OpenDX binaries from the OpenDX.org. So, which software(s) should > I install? There are 2 different version of DX for Windows, one uses Cygwin and other NOT. Some users like parsng scripts etc to DX like they do on a UNIX workstation therefore Cygwin compiled binaries were provided for those users... others prefer no unix emulation therefore for them Exceed compiled version... > > 3. Complete list of files that I should have before the installation. Archives are complete Suhaib > Any help is very much appreciated. > > With best regards, > Wong Hee Huo >
