AGOCG Review of Visualization systems
Overview
One of the responsibilities of the UK Advisory Group on Computer Graphics
(AGOCG) is to stimulate and support the effective use of computer based
visualization.
AGOCG therefore requested the Council for the Central Laboratory of the
Research Councils and the Universities of Leeds and Manchester and Natural
Environment Research Council Computing Services (Keyworth) to conduct a
review of visualization software, to help potential and actual users make
effective choices.
The purpose of the work is therefore to review the current market for
visualization software as it exists in the UK and to provide information to
the UK Academic community for its visualization needs.
The following systems were reviewed (listed in alphabetical order):
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AVS 5.01 (with some comments about version 5.02 and forthcoming AVS6)
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IBM Data Explorer 2.0
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IRIS Explorer 2.2
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Khoros: 2.0 (Beta release)
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PVWAVE 4.2.
The people involved with the review have produced a report containing
information on all the above systems.
Obtaining the report
The WWW page contains information on obtaining or ordering the report:
http://www.agocg.ac.uk:8080/agocg/PrevPj/VisSyst/rvsreport.html
Electronic version
It is available on line as postscript (17 Mbytes) via anonymous FTP
(ftp.mcc.ac.uk) under the directory /pub/agocg/reports (rvsreport.ps.gz).
If you have any problems with this large postscript file then the same
report has been split into five smaller files called
rvstitle.ps.gz
rvscontents.ps.gz
rvsreportA.ps.gz
rvsreportB.ps.gz
rvsreportC.ps.gz.
Paper copy
A paper version of the report may be ordered using the email form:
http://www.agocg.ac.uk:8080/agocg/PrevPj/TechRepFM.html
More information about AGOCG
You can find more information about AGOGC and its activities on the
AGOCG WWW server's home page:
http://www.agocg.ac.uk:8080/agocg/
Steve Larkin
s.larkin@mcc.ac.uk