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Date: 19 May 89 21:28:00 GMT
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Addendum/Correction to the previous note announcing NCSA X Image 
and NCSA X DataSlice.

>NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) will soon be releasing
>2 scientific visualization tools: NCSA X ImageView, a 2d raster imaging tool
>and NCSA X DataSlice, a 3d scientific data volumetric tool.  The official
>release date of both tools is June 1st, but beta copies are available for
>anyone who might  be interested.  Both programs are written in X-Windows and

NCSA X Image and NCSA X DataSlice will be available for beta testing
June 1st.  It will be available in Sun 3 and Tek 4319 executable form at 
that time.  One will be able to obtain a beta copy via anonymous ftp from
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50).  Release of source code is planned 
towards the end of summer.

We are testing the products on machines/X servers that we have available here
which include Sun 3's, Apple Mac II's (A/UX), SGI, Tektronix 4319, 
IBM RT (AOS 4.3).  

These tools will be demonstrated at Xhibition '89 in a seminar entitled
Scientific Visualization in X Windows.

Dave Thompson (davet@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign