[ATMoB-discuss] Visualizing astronomy data in 3D Slicer

[Kathryn Hayes]

I work for the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital on an open source software package called 3D Slicer, which was originally intended to do pre-surgical planning and intraoperative visualization in our open MRI.  While I'm still working on the surgical side of things, some of my colleagues are using Slicer for non-medical research, including modeling soil erosion and visualizing astronomy data.  

The website has images, movies, newspaper articles and scientific papers, instructions on how to download the software (runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Solaris) and some sample astronomy data sets to play around with.  I will warn you that this project is still very beta, so you will probably find a few bugs.

http://astromed.iic.harvard.edu/UsingSlicer

Katie