Scientific Visualization and Graphics Software Packages
There's a good list of software and descriptions at the University of
Colorado in Boulder's
VisualSoftware Support Lab.
Here's a list of various packages and ftp sites put together by some
well
known netters over ftp
General Purpose Packages:
- exponent GRAPHICS (Visual
Numerics) ($$$)
- FAST ( Flow
Analysis S
oftware Toolkit, NASA ) (inexpensive for some, others $$$ )
- FERRET
(Application for analysis of gridded data sets) (free)
-
IDL ( Research Systems, Inc. ) ($$$)
- Matlab ( Mathworks, Inc. )
($$$)
- NCAR Graphics (NCAR) (inexpensive)
-
LASSPToo
ls (NCAR) (Unix utilities for numerical analysis and graphics)
(free)
- PV-Wave Visual Numerics ($$$)
- SciAn (Florida State University)
(free)
- Tekplot ($$$)
- Gnuplot
(free, but *not* Free Software Foundation)
- Tk/Tcl XWindows Interface to Gnuplot (free.)
- DISSPLA (Computer Associates) ($$$$)
- ACE/gr (xmgr,xvgr) (free)
- Igor (Wavemetrics) ($$)
Visual Programming/Modular Visualization Environments
Chemistry and Molecular Modeling Applications
The
NIH has a whole list of software for all aspects of Molecular
Modeling
including computer graphics for Macs, PCs, and Unix Workstations. The
list below is not as complete, but has some interesting links which the
NIH page doesn't.
- XMol (free
)
- Rasmol Read the
README fil
e (free)
- MolView
( M
ac,PowerMac, free )
- Ribbons (free)
-
UCSF Midas Plus (very inexpensive)
- Multi (free)
- Biosym ($$$$)
-
Raster3D:photorealistic molecular graphics (free)
Finite Elements Pre- and Post-Processing
Fluid Flow Visualization
- EnSight 5 ($$)
- FAST ( inexpensive or $$$)
- FieldView ($$$$)
Imaging/Image Processing Applications
- pbmplus/netpbm (free)
- Image Tools (SDSC) (free)
- Utah Raster Toolkit (free)
- NIH Image (free)
- NCSA Collage (free)
Medical
Astronomy
Atmospheric
Ray Tracing
Color Map Creation/Editing
- Icol (free)
- PalEdit (free)
Specific Use Packages: