Well, as time travel is not yet available for us, this future reference is just a placeholder for things to come. But we'll surely demonstrate something extraordinary at this year's SC'99.

But in the meanwhile, if you want to see something great, have a look at this year's total sun eclipse in central europe:

• Get Amira for SGI IRIX 32 Bit from amira.zib.de
• Get and install the Amira numrel extensions from http://amira.zib.de/download/contrib/
• Compile CACTUS with at least the following thorns
  • external/TCPXX
  • external/RemoteIO
  • CactusNet/http (optional, but recommended)
  • CactusNet/NetGeometry
  • CactusPughIO/IsoSurfacer
  in addition to the usual physics thorns. An parameter files how to use the remote isosurfacer are in arrangements/CactusPughIO/IsoSurfacer/par/
• Start Amira with option amira +remoteviz which creates an sample Amira network. Enter hostname (where cactus is running at this moment) and click `connect'. If you use the `amira_announce' string in the parameter file, this will be done automatically when cactus starts up.

Linux version of the standard Amira version is available, the remote isosurfacer for Linux is under debugging currently (2.11.99).

Windows NT version of Amira is in experimental stage, the remote isosurface might be portable, but it is an open question if we get this done until SC99. (2.11.99).

Please send any question on these Amira topics to Werner Benger.

Amira scripts to animate VRML output from Cactus wavetout, isolevel 0:

• animate-surfaces.hx - read *.wrl files in current dir and convert into nice Amira surface format for animation
• animate-wavetoy.hx - read all *.wrl files in current dir and display - visual impression is worse than Amira surface format, but it might be faster