Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!mit-amt!turk
From: turk@mit-amt (Matthew Turk)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics Packages
Summary: Spider library, Web library
Keywords: 3-D, RA, SPIDER
Message-ID: <3263@mit-amt>
Date: 5 Nov 88 16:34:23 GMT
References: <7813@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <7813@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, sorensen@hstbme.mit.edu (Gregory Sorensen) writes:
> I have heard about a couple of packages that may or may not be
> available.  
> 
> The other is a set of algorithms more than a package,  per se,
> and it is called SPIDER, or something like that.  I may recall
> that I heard someone called John Webb at CMU might have had this...
> 

The SPIDER library of image processing routines was written in Fortran
by a Japanese company or university.  The Web library, at least a couple
years ago, was basically a re-writing of SPIDER for the Warp machine, a
fast systolic array machine developed by H.T. Kung's group at CMU.  I
imaging that Web has a lot of extra stuff, but I *think* it was only
done for the Warp machine (not portable at all to anything else).

Other CMU folks have developed a Unix-based image processing system
called Generalized Image Library (GIL), which is good for Suns....