Siggraph 97 Course: Design and Application of Object-Oriented 3D Visualization Systems

Survey of Visualization Systems References

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Software Links

• Symbolic Mathematics

  Maple

  http://www.maplesoft.com/

  commercial, multiplatform

  Mathematica

  http://www.mathematica.com/

  commercial, multiplatform

  Matlab

  http://www.mathworks.com/

  commercial, multiplatform

• Dataflow Packages

  AVS

  http://www.avs.com/

  commercial, multiplatform

  IBM Data Explorer (DX)

  http://www.almaden.ibm.com/dx/

  commercial, Unix

  Iris Explorer

  http://www.nag.co.uk/1h/Welcome_IEC.html

  commercial, multiplatform

  Khoros

  http://www.khoral.com/

  free/commercial, Unix

  Oorange

  http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/oorange/

  free, Unix

• Class Hierarchies

  vtk

  http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~martink/

  free, multiplatform

  Inventor

  http://www.sgi.com/Technology/Inventor.html

  bundled with SGIs, commercial on other platforms

  Oorange

  http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/oorange/

  free, Unix

• Other Visualization Packages

  FAST

  http://science.nas.nasa.gov/Software/FAST/fastinfo.html

  free, SGI

  Geomview

  http://www.geom.umn.edu/projects/visualization/

  free, Unix

• Graphics Systems

  OpenGL

  http://www.sgi.com/Technology/OpenGL/

  free on SGI, both free and commercial on other platforms

  Performer

  http://www.sgi.com/Technology/Performer/

  commercial, SGI

  Inventor

  http://www.sgi.com/Technology/Inventor.html

  free on SGI, commercial on other platforms

  VRML Repository

  http://rosebud.sdsc.edu/vrml/

  both free and commercial, multiplatform

• Image-Based Rendering
  Light Fields
  http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/software/lightpack/
  free, multiplatform

  Quick Time VR
  http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/
  free, Mac/PC

  RealSpace

  http://www.rlspace.com/

  free, Mac/PC