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From: annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Ardent DORE software on SUN-III/160 color workstations
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Date: 16 Mar 89 06:08:24 GMT
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We are considering purchasing DORE for three dimensional reconstructions
of brains from serial sections (CAT, NMR, PET, etc).  However, the limited
information provided to date about required configurations says:

      "Portable Dore is a generic verion of Dore that is portable to a
       wide variety of platforms.  In addition to the Titan, Portable
       Dore can be compiled and run on a Sun-4 configured with GP2 and
       CG5 graphics boards."

The question we have is: has anyone ported and run Dore on a SUN-III/160C
configuration using /dev/cgtwo0 as the image display device?  Also, because
we have access to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, has anyone ported and
run Dore on the CRAY XMP-48 running CTSS?  Has anyone done their ray tracing
on the Cray, displayed a rough image with a 24 to 8 bit color raster coding
program, and produced finished slides on the film recorder attached to Cray?

Anyone's comments and/or suggestions are welcome.  While $250 vs. $15,000 is
a great proce break for universities, $250 is still a pretty significant cost
in my lab, and we'd like to be certain we can use the product before we buy it.

Thanks, AJ Annala, USC Neural, Informational & Behavioral Sciences Program