* An interactive computational environment combining a flexible interpreted language with linkages to Fortran and C.
* A data model that lets users design data types appropriate to their applications.
* A novel and flexible way to visualize computations.
VisAD includes a large number of example programs and data sets that demonstrate its flexibility. While it has been developed primarily to meet the needs of environmental scientists, its flexibility makes it useful to any scientists who develop algorithms or use computers to analyze data.
Here's a screen shot of VisAD:
Version 1.1 of VisAD runs on Silicon Graphics workstation. Later versions will be ported to other vendors' workstations.
VisAD was written by the Visualization Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) by Bill Hibbard and Brian Paul .
The development of VisAD was supported by NASA.
Manual ftp operation:
% ftp iris.ssec.wisc.edu Connected to iris.ssec.wisc.edu Name: anonymous Guest login ok, type your name as password. Password: myname@address ftp> cd pub/visad ftp> asc ftp> get README ftp> bin ftp> get visad.1.1.tar.Z ftp> byeOr, click here to browse the VisAD ftp archive.
Manual ftp operation:
% ftp ftp.dkrz.de Connected to info.dkrz.de Name: anonymous Guest login ok, type your name as password. Password: myname@address ftp> cd pub/visu/ssec/visad ftp> asc ftp> get README ftp> bin ftp> get visad.1.1.tar.Z ftp> byeOr, click here to browse their VisAD ftp archive.
U.S. Mail can be sent to:
Space Science and Engineering Center University of Wisconsin - Madison 1225 W. Dayton St. Madison, WI 53706
Several papers are available describing the VisAD system, including: