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We have installed and maintain visualization software on the vislab computers; we are happy to install additional non-commercial software, as well. The following general and discipline-specific visualization software is currently installed.

General Visualization Software
Package Version Operating System Description
OpenGL® 1.3 Solaris
Windows XP 		3D Graphics API
Java3D™ 1.3.1 Solaris
Windows XP 		3D Graphics API
GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) 3.7.6 Windows XP Windowing API for OpenGL
VTK (Visualization Toolkit) 4.2.2 Solaris
Windows XP 		3D Graphics Toolkit
ParaView 1.6.3

Windows XP
Linux

 Data Visualizer (built on VTK)
OpenRM Scene Graph 1.5.2-3

Solaris
Windows XP
Linux

3D Scene Graph
OpenSceneGraph 0.9.7-3 Solaris
Windows XP 		3D Scene Graph
OpenDX (IBM Visualization
Data Explorer) 		4.3 Solaris
Windows XP 		Visualization/Analysis Toolkit
3DCombine * 3.4.1 Windows XP 3D Movie Creator
Play3D + 0.1 Windows XP + 3D Movie Player
Pokescope * 2.4 Windows XP Stereoscopic Image Viewer
MPlayer 1.0 Linux 3D Movie Player (Geowall)
Walkabout 1.3.2 Windows XP
Linux
 		Collaborative 3D Environment Exploration (Geowall)
Immersaview (commands) 0.4 Windows XP
Linux 		OpenInventor/VRML viewer (Geowall)
Spazz3D * 2.4c Windows XP 3D Model creation tool
X3D-Edit 3.0 Solaris
Windows XP 		X3D/VRML creation tool
WallView (commands) 9.0 Windows XP Stereo image viewer (Geowall)
JPS Stereo Viewer 1.0 Windows XP Stereo image viewer
Blender 3D 2.34 Windows XP
Linux
Solaris 		3D Model Creation Package
* This is licensed software and is only available on Bells
+ Windows XP command-line program (no GUI)

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Astronomy Visualization Software
Package Version Operating System Description
MIRIAD (Multichannel Image Reconstruction, Image Analysis and Display) Jan 2004 Linux Radio astronomy data reduction
Aipsview 2.2.6 Solaris
Linux 		Astronomy (FITS, AIPS++) visualization
AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System) Dec 2004 Linux Radio Astronomy data analysis
AIPS++ (Astronomical Information Processing System) 1.9 Linux Radio astronomy data analysis
GIPSY (Groningen Image Processing System) May 2002 Solaris Radio astronomy data analysis
KARMA 1.7.19 Solaris
Linux 		Astronomy visualization
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) 2.12 Solaris Optical Astronomy Data Reduction
SAOimage 1.35.1 Solaris Astronomy (FITS, IRAF) visualization
DS9 (successor to SAOimage) 3.03 Solaris
Windows XP
Linux 		Astronomy (FITS, IRAF) visualization
Astro3D 1.0 Solaris 3D Astronomy (FITS) visualization
Partiview 0.7.04 Solaris
Windows XP 		3D Data Visualizer

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Chemistry Visualization Software
Package Version Operating System Description
Ghemical 1.00 Linux Model building, classical mechanics based simulations and interface to massively parallel quantum code
Molden 4.2 Solaris Pre- and post processing program of molecular and electronic structure
gOpenMol 2.32 Windows XP
Linux 		Visualization package for biomolecular systems and trajectories
Jaguar 4.0 Solaris Fast quantum chemistry package
VMD 1.7.2 Solaris
Windows XP 		A molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting.

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software
Package Version Operating System Description
3DEM 18.9 Windows XP A visualization program that can produce three dimensional terrain scenes and flyby animations.
ESRI® ArcGIS™ * 8.2 Windows XP GIS mapping software.
ShapeViz™ 1.5 Windows XP Visualizes GIS shape data and converts into VRML.
* This is licensed software and is only available on Anchor and Dosxx

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