Hi Shaman,
I understand that XAML is to extend svg into the 3rd dimension but
we will have to wait for some time to get much chance to see it in action.
Longhorn is still a year or two out + 2-3 more before there is an extensive
installation base? Then there is the problem of a shrinking browser user
base for MS only solutions? In the meantime as you mentioned there is still
a lot of medical imagery that is simply 2D.
I imagine bandwidth would need to grow a good deal before actual 3D
modeling is feasible in a web app situation, especially in a tomography
sense which requires more than wire frame modeling. As I understand it we
aren't even talking nurb surfaces but full 3D voxel models for that type of
imagery. Even if the client side rendering engine handles all the 3d
manipulation there is a lot of information to pass across the internet to
get a model to the client to render. A possible approach is to handle the 3D
manipulation on the server and just pass the resulting 2D view plane to the
browser for which png/jpg could work inside an svg framework. Perhaps the
simplest approach would be to extend an existing workstation modeler to pass
view planes to an svg client. It wouldn't be very interactive but has the
advantage of being shared across the world for discussion and whiteboard
collaboration.
Though I haven't seen much of any activity in the medical use of
svg, if you know of any examples please pass it on to the community. I'm
sure there would be some interest.
Thanks
Randy
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From: shaman_svg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:59 AM
To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [svg-developers] Re: Medical images
Thank you, Sara.
However there is no use to convert DICOM or some other
medical stuff to common raster or vector formats. There are
too much reasons. Speed, interactivity, sometimes interactive
3D rendering, medical specific data e.c. The conversion
to jpg or png is a way, when you just need to make practically
stationary medical web page. That would be cool to
extend SVG viewer. Say, I whant to have buttons, drawing
lines, text labels, data charts and other
beauty as SVG but with 3D rendering of human skull
coming from tomograph device, OK? Something about
extension is included in next SVG standart, however
I did not get the idea.
Regards. And thanks to show me the forum!
Shaman.
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "sara_j_porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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> Shaman,
> You need to be more specific.
> What are the file formats that the
> medical images are stored in? Are
> they raster (tif, jpg, png, gif)
> or vector (svg, eps, dxf). Are they 2d or 3d?
>
> Sara Porter
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