Appendix A - Other Software

3Dview
For viewing and manipulating Dicom sets. Volume Rendering Application for viewing DICOMS:
See: http://www.rmrsystems.co.uk/volume_rendering.htm
Slicer
For viewing and manipulating Dicom sets. Like 3D view, but more comprehensive and with colour. Built on VTK libraries.
See: http://www.slicer.org/
Osirix
For viewing and manipulating Dicom sets. Like 3DView, but on MacOS, and with slightly different tools - put forward as a "discussion document" for guiding thinking about the overall project. Used to convert, segment or just colour the dicom files.
See: http://www.osirix-viewer.com/index.html
Codeblocks
Open Source IDE for C++
See: http://www.codeblocks.org/
CMake
Builds the project files for an Open Source compilation, required for compiling OSG.
See: http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Download.html
TortoiseSVN
Open Source versioning software
See: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
VTK
A graphics library, like OSG, for 3D Computer Graphics and Visualization.
See: http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.0/html/index.html
Python 2.5
Required by VTK and Blender.
See: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/
MakeHuman
Open Source program for generating 3D meshes of humans.
See: http://www.makehuman.org/blog/index.php