NAME

     vol - file format and tools for 3D voxel pictures.

DESCRIPTION

          vol files have usually the ".vol" extension. They are 3D voxel pictures
     that are read/written by the vol library. They are divided into two distinct
     section :
          - the header which looks like an e-mail header and contains information
     such as the size or the endianness of the file
          - the data, which is machine-dependant (it is just a dump of the array used
     by the vol library)

          See volformat(5) for more about the formats used by the vol library (vol and
     raw files).

          Usually, a few tools come with the vol library.

TOOLS

     vol2geom : convert a vol file into geomview  format.  Useful
     for visualization.  See vol2geom(1).

     volarith : a tool that do  a  few  operations  beetween  vol
     files (such as or, and or minus).  See volarith(1).

     volboundary : extract boundaries of vol files. See  volboun-
     dary(1).

     raw2vol : converts a raw file in vol format.

     vol2raw : converts a vol file in raw format.

FILES

     /home/aguillau/local/lib/libvol.* : the vol library files

     /home/aguillau/local/include/vol.h : the vol library include
     files

     /home/aguillau/local/bin/vol2geom

     /home/aguillau/local/bin/volarith

     /home/aguillau/local/bin/raw2vol

     /home/aguillau/local/bin/volboundary

     /home/aguillau/local/man/*/* : various man pages  (including
     this one)

NOTES

     vol tools and libairies are free software, covered with  the
     GPL licence.

SEE ALSO

     vol2geom(1), volboundary(1), volarith(1)

AUTHORS

     Alexis Guillaume - "Laboratoire LIRIS", Universite Lyon  II,
     aguillau@liris.univ-lyon2.fr

     David Coeurjolly - "Laboratoire LIRIS", Universite Lyon  II,
     dcoeurjo@liris.univ-lyon2.fr