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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>3D Visualization Software Available For Programmers Who Use Macs</h1></div>
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<p>3D Visualization Software Now Available for programmers who use Macs</p>
<p>For Immediate Release<br />
March 29, 2005</p>
<p>(Downers Grove, Illinois) The Numerical Algorithms Group=92s IRIS<br />
Explorer Release 5.2, the most advanced and best-supported visualization<br />
application development environment that is used by a wide range of<br />
scientific researchers, is now available on the Mac OS X platform. IRIS<br />
Explorer is one of the first modular, multi-purpose visualization<br />
environments for Mac users.</p>
<p>NAG=92s IRIS Explorer is a system for visualization of scientific data<br />
that incorporates a visual programming interface that enables users to<br />
build applications from software building blocks, or modules. The<br />
modular design of the IRIS Explorer system facilitates maximum<br />
flexibility in visualization development because researchers can, within<br />
seconds, try several ways to convert numerical data into different types<br />
of pictures. The 'point and click' application development environment<br />
shortens the time needed to develop and prototype applications that meet<br />
their organization's specific needs. The IRIS Explorer distribution<br />
includes hundreds of modules; in addition, users can add new<br />
functionality to the system by writing their own modules using the<br />
development tools provided. The 3D visualizations created by IRIS<br />
Explorer can be manipulated in real time and are ideal for displaying<br />
scientific data from chemistry, physics and other disciplines, together<br />
with engineering data from finite-element modeling and CFD. More<br />
recently, IRIS Explorer has also been applied to other areas, such as<br />
the visualization of financial data.</p>
<p>The modular architecture and multi-platform availability of IRIS<br />
Explorer makes it easy to distribute applications across a network that<br />
can consist of a variety of platforms (besides Mac OS X, IRIS Explorer<br />
runs on Windows, Linux, SGI, Sun, HP and IBM systems). In addition,<br />
IRIS Explorer is especially useful in research projects that require<br />
tools for collaborative (or multi-user) visualization, since it allows<br />
researchers to share a visualization pipeline with users on other<br />
machines in a heterogeneous network.</p>
<p>Mark Stoermer (Director, Center for Environmental Visualization,<br />
University of Washington, College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences), is one<br />
of many longstanding IRIS Explorer users who asked NAG to add Mac OS X<br />
to their list of supported platforms. Stoermer explains, =93We use the<br />
Mac extensively for graphic development and other visualization<br />
applications that are central to our work. IRIS Explorer has been very<br />
important to our ability to do rapid prototyping of earth science<br />
visualizations. We look forward to continuing to use IRIS Explorer and<br />
will soon develop an earth science visualization server running IRIS<br />
Explorer on a Mac in conjunction with Apple=92s QuickTime Streaming Server<br />
that will help us develop new earth science image streams on dynamic web<br />
pages.=94</p>
<p>Jeremy Walton, Senior Visualization Consultant for the Numerical<br />
Algorithms Group, comments that the Mac OS X release of IRIS Explorer<br />
was developed in response to worldwide requests. =93Because NAG=92s IRIS<br />
Explorer is such a powerful data visualization tool and yet so easy to<br />
use, it has long been in use by a wide range of scientific research<br />
projects across the globe. Many scientists are now using their Macs for<br />
research, and so we received numerous requests to create this version of<br />
IRIS Explorer for Mac OS X.=94</p>
<p>Rob Meyer, CEO of NAG further adds, =93We are very committed to creating<br />
Mac platform versions of the full range of NAG technical software<br />
products. In addition to this release of IRIS Explorer, NAG offers Mac<br />
users a complete range of tools for producing scientific and analytical<br />
applications, including math, statistical, and data mining component<br />
libraries and Fortran compilers.=94</p>
<p>NAG (<a href="http://www.nag.com" title="www.nag.com">www.nag.com</a>) is a 30-year-old company dedicated to making<br />
cross-platform mathematical, statistical and data mining components and<br />
tools for developers as well as 3D visualization application development<br />
environments. It operates worldwide with offices in Chicago (USA),<br />
Oxford (UK), and Tokyo (Japan). Today it serves over 10,000 sites<br />
worldwide in finance, engineering, and scientific research as well as<br />
industry partners such as Oracle, IBM, AMD, and many others.</p>
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