This section contains references to a variety of newsgroups, mailing lists, FTP archives, and World Wide Web sites that will be helpful to graphics programmers and others who need information and graphics resources.[3]
[3] Our thanks to Shari L.S. Worthington for her contribution to a similar summary that appeared in the first edition of this book. Many of the Internet resources listed here were included in her article, "Imaging on the Internet: Scientific/Industrial Resources," which appeared in Advanced Imaging, February 1994.
The prime source of graphics information on USENET is the FAQ for the comp.graphics newsgroup. Information on file formats, image processing and analysis, books and journal articles, and graphics and imaging software packages is updated monthly in this FAQ.
The image-processing FAQ found in the sci.image.processing newsgroup gives a list of Macintosh image-processing information available via FTP, USENET, email, telephone, and the postal service.
The Pilot European Image Processing Archive (PEIPA) is a repository and distribution service for software, digests, and newsgroup archives concerned with image processing, analysis, manipulation, generation, and the display of graphics. The PEIPA FTP site (peipa.essex.ac.uk) contains the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) and Society for Pattern Recognition newsletter (directory ipa/digest/bmva), the International Association for Pattern Recognition newsletter (directory ipa/digest/IAPR), and the archives for the pixel (ipa/digests/pixel ) and Vision-List (directory ipa/digests/vision-list) mailing lists.
3D imaging
An excellent source of multimedia files
An excellent source of graphics files
An alternative to comp.compression
An alternative to comp.graphics.misc
Discussion of image manipulation software
Medical image processing and analysis
Data compression algorithms and theory
Discussions about data compression research, including JPEG and MPEG
Digital signal processing and audio formats
Font file formats
Computer graphics, art, animation, image processing, and file formats
Technical aspects of computer animation
Technical discussion on latest graphics research
Information on scientific visualization
Geographic information systems
Information on using image files on Web pages
Interactive multimedia technologies
Speech processing topics
Macintosh scientific and engineering applications
Graphics software and issues on SGI systems
Modeling, storage, and retrieval of scientific data
Scientific image processing and analysis
Association of electronic lists and journals on electronic publishing
To subscribe: send email to [email protected]
Discussion of the NIH Image software package for the Macintosh
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with the body "subscribe nih-image yourfirstname yourlastname"
British Machine Vision Association newsletter for all image processing, machine vision, pattern recognition, remote sensing, and related topics
To subscribe: send email to [email protected]
Computer vision discussion of algorithms and techniques
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with the body "subscribe vision-list"
Image processing using the X Window System
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with "subscribe ximage" in the body of the message
3D object repository; archive of graphics file format specifications
File format archive
File format archive
Clearinghouse for Microsoft Windows applications, tips, utilities, drivers, and bitmaps
National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Publicly available software for image processing, data analysis, and visualization for the Macintosh, PC, and UNIX platforms. Archive of graphics file specifications.
File format archive
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Image Tools, ImageTyper, and Interactive Color Tutorial. Sound and image file archive.
File format archive
UUNET archive. Large collection of graphics and imaging software including the comp.graphics.misc archive.
File format archive
File format archive
International Society for Optical Engineering. Proceedings, programs, and information on Technical Working Groups, including electronic imaging.
Pilot European Image Processing Archive. Contains many images and software packages, including the Khoros GUI development environment. Also contains a modest collection of graphics file formats specifications.
Naval Research Laboratory Research Computation Division Visualization Laboratory. Mostly Macintosh programs for chemistry, biology, math, imaging, AI, data acquisition, etc.
Smithsonian Institution photoimage archives
Large repository of Macintosh software
University of North Carolina. Information on multimedia images, video, and sound. Graphical image collection.
Archive of graphics file format specifications
Large archive of graphics software and graphics file format specifications and information
Mirror site for most major FTP archive sites. Also contains a large archive of graphics and images for math and life science educators, as well as file formats.
File format archives
National Institutes of Health archive for the Macintosh NIH Image and related publicly available programs.
Electronic journals and newsletters
The following resources contain information on the sciences of chemistry, biology, biomedicine, and nuclear medicine. The Biomedical Computer Laboratory (BCL) is supported by the National Institute of Health's (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). The BCL promotes the application of advances in computer science and engineering, mathematics, and the physical sciences to research problems in the biological and medical fields by supporting the development of advanced research technologies. Emphasis is on quantitative imaging, including PET image reconstruction, computational optical-sectioning microscopy, shape modeling and segmentation, electron-microscopic autoradiography (EMA), image acquisition and quantitative analysis of DNA electrophoretic gels and autoradiograms, and parallel processing.
Cognitive science and neuroscience discussion
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with the body "subscribe cogneuro"
Medical imaging discussion
To subscribe: send email to listserv%polygraf.bitnet@mitvma.\%mit.edu\* with the body "subscribe medimage"
A discussion of nuclear medicine and related issues, including the format of digital images
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with the body "subscribe nucmed yourfirstname yourlastname"
Radiology Special Interest Group
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with the body "subscribe radsig yourfirstname yourlastname"
Veterinary medicine computer assisted instruction
Topics include imaging, expert systems, and LIMs.
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with body "subscribe vetcai-l yourfirstname yourlastname"
Computational chemistry and biology information
University of North Carolina. Information on astronomy, biology, chemistry, molecular modeling, geology, and GIS.
Biomedical Computer Laboratory. Quantitative imaging data.
Nuclear Data Center
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Agricultural-related mailing lists
Medical imaging, George Washington University
MedWeb: Adam's Guide to medical resources on the Internet images
Neurosciences Internet resource guide
Neuroscience mailing lists
Other Internet neuroscience resources
Nuclear medicine resources
Nuclear medicine resources on the Internet
Veterinary medicine
The latest weather data sources are located in the FAQ for the newsgroup sci.geo.meteorology. The FAQ contains current information on weather satellite data and images, and on meteorological, oceanographic, and geophysical research data. Information on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) may be found in the GIS-L mailing list, the newsgroup comp.infosystems.gis, or on the FTP site csn.org.
Information on all aspects of Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Discussion of meteorology
Forum for the discussion of Geographical Information Systems
To subscribe: send email to [email protected] with the body "subscribe GIS-L yourfirstname yourlastname"
Geologic, GIS, mapping, earth science software and resources for the PC and Macintosh
Synthetic stereo satellite images of earth
Weather map of England, Europe, and the earth in GIF format
Weather satellite images of North America and Surface Analysis weather maps in GIF format
Ocean Information Center. Data sets related to oceanography.
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Earth sciences listservers
GIS net sites
Online resources for earth sciences
The Internet abounds with information on astronomy, astrophysics, and space exploration. Archives contain thousands of images collected from telescopic, satellite, and spacecraft data.
The Space Telescope Electronic Information System (stsci.edu) is a very comprehensive resource for all astronomical information, accessible both via the Web and FTP. It includes many spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope images.
The NASA archive ftp.gsfc.nasa.gov contains not only a huge collection of images but also references to other resources, such as UUNET, the Washington University archives, and the Lawrence Berkeley Labs.
An astronomy discussion
Figaro data-reduction package discussion
Discussions on the Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS)
An astronomy discussion
Issues related to the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS)
Hubble Space Telescope data
A planetarium-oriented discussion
Information on new NASA software for astronomy and space exploration
To subscribe: send email to [email protected].
NASA/Ames Archives. Data files, GIF images, and NASA press releases and indexes.
Big Bear Solar Observatory. Solar full-disk and high-resolution images.
NASA images in GIF, JPEG, PostScript, Sun Raster, and X Bitmap formats. Links to LBL, Washington University, and UUNET.
Planetary Data System (PDS) Geosciences Node and Magellan spacecraft images
EnviroNET (Space Environment Information Service). Space data from NASA and the European Space Agency.
| Username: envnet |
| Password: henniker |
National Space Sciences Data Center. Archive for space and earth science researchers.
| Login: nodis |
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