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- From: brianp@meteor.wisc.edu (Brian Paul)
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- Subject: VIS-5D version 3.0 now available
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.183756.1481@meteor.wisc.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:37:56 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Meteorology and Space Science
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- VIS-5D version 3.0 is now available
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- VIS-5D is a system for interactive visualization of 5-D gridded data
- sets such as those made by numeric weather models. One can make
- isosurfaces, contour line slices, colored slices, wind vector slices,
- wind trajectories, etc. of data in a 3-D grid and then rotate and animate
- the image in realtime. There are also features for text annotation and
- video production.
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- Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
- by the Free Software Foundation. Development funded by NASA.
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- Hardware requirements:
- Silicon Graphics:
- IRIS with VGX, GTX, TG, or G graphics
- SGI Crimson or Indigo (R4000, Elan graphics suggested)
- 32MB RAM suggested
- IRIX 4.0.x
- IBM RS/6000:
- 3-D graphics hardware with GL
- 32MB RAM suggested
- AIX version 3 or later
- Stardent/Stellar:
- GS-1000 or GS-2000
- TrueColor display
- 32MB RAM suggested
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- How to get it:
- % ftp vis5d.ssec.wisc.edu
- or
- % ftp 144.92.108.66
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- login: anonymous
- password: myname@location
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- ftp> cd pub/vis5d
- ftp> ascii
- ftp> get README
- ftp> bye
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- See section 2 of the README file for complete system requirements
- and installation instructions.
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- Includes:
- Complete source code for visualization program and utilities
- 2 sample data sets
- Sample conversion program to put your data into McIDAS format
- Documentation and porting guide
- Executable files are also available
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- Contact:
- Bill Hibbard (whibbard@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
- Brian Paul (bpaul@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
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- Space Science and Engineering Center
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- 1225 W. Dayton St.
- Madison, WI 53706
-