Scientific Visualization Studio

xd3d is a simple scientific visualization tool designed to be easy to learn. It can plot 2d and 3d meshes, with shadowing, contour plots, vector fields, iso-contour (3d), as well as 3d surfaces z=f(x,y) defined by an algebraic expression or a cloud of points. It generates high quality vector...

3DBrainExplorer is designed as lightweight, Open Source and OpenGL-based 3D renderer for scientific visualization of volumetric data or NIfTI. 3DBrainExplorer features real-time image manipulation, AAL brain labels (Tzourio-Mazoyer et al., 2002), SPM5 statistical images and stereo display.

GDIS is a scientific visualization program for the display, manipulation, and analysis of isolated molecules and periodic structures. It is in development, but is nonetheless quite functional. It has the following features: * Support for many common file formats (CIF, PDB, XTL, XYZ, and many...


Platforms: *nix, C/C++, BSD

OpenRM Scene Graph is a developers toolkit that implements a scene graph API, and which uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated rendering. OpenRM is intended to be used to construct high performance, portable graphics and scientific visualization applications on Unix/Linux/Windows platforms. It...


Platforms: *nix

Open Scene Graph is a cross-platform OpenGL/C++ library for real-time visualization. Uses range from visual simulation, scientific modeling, virtual reality, and games. The OpenSceneGraph is an open source high peformance 3D graphics toolkit, used by application developers in fields such as...


Platforms: *nix

This multi-talented music software is for playing MP3, WMA and iTunes files, and ripping, burning and organizing a digital music collection. It is packed with features to help you enjoy your music to the max. Encodes to WMA, OGG, APE and MP3. Customizable View Schemes give you supreme control...


Platforms: Windows

Libsball is a simple POSIX-based library for communicating with Spaceball 2003, 3000, 3003, and 4000 FLX six-degree-of-freedom motion control devices, via RS-232 serial ports on Unix-like systems. Spaceballs are excellent controllers for CAD/CAM, scientific visualization, and general 3-D VR...


Platforms: *nix

Geo3D's features include:Flexible mouse and keyboard navigation through and around the models with many configuration options Open and save 3DMF files (3D Metafile) in text or binary format Preview 3DMF textures Export 2D images and animation sequences in PEG, PNG, TIFF, and Photoshop format at...


Platforms: Mac

Atom in a Box is an application that aids in visualizing the Hydrogenic atomic orbitals, a prime and otherwise unwieldy example of quantum mechanics. Unlike other tools in this category, this program raytraces through a three-dimensional cloud density that represents the wavefunction's...


Platforms: Mac

Pooch provides the easiest way to assemble and operate a parallel computer. We encourage you to see for yourself. Pooch even operates correctly on mixed clusters of OS 9 and OS X Macs. The download also contains the AltiVec Fractal Carbon app, a parallel application that rapidly computes...


Platforms: Mac

Power Fractal is a numerically-intensive parallel graphics application that computes a Mandelbrot-like fractal and displays processor performance statistics. This app uses the AltiVec, SSE, and multiple processors (MP) for its computations and uses UCLA AppleSeed's MacMPI library for...


Platforms: Mac

Anatas is a scriptable drag-and-drop application that converts text 3DMF files to binary form and vice versa.


Platforms: Mac

Solar System Sim simulates N-body problems in three dimensions and visualizes the solution in a compelling display. The simulation uses an attractive force between bodies which varies by the distance between them raised to a power of your choosing. The simulation also allows for a craft with...


Platforms: Mac

The EdGCM Project develops and distributes a research-quality global climate model (GCM) with a user-friendly interface that runs on desktop computers. Anyone can explore the subject of climate change using the same methods and tools that scientists employ. The design of the software allows...


Platforms: Mac

Fresnel Diffraction Explorer simulates Fresnel diffraction by any two-dimensional aperture using an algorithm published in the Nov/Dec 1996 issue of Computers In Physics. It contains an interactive user-interface and a self-demo to aid in use of the algorithms. Parallelized for use with Pooch on...


Platforms: Mac

Open source parallelized fractal generator for Mac clusters. This code is meant to help people experiment with and learn parallel programming as well as show how an interactive parallel application is written for clusters. You may try different parallelization techniques or substitute different...


Platforms: Mac

Pooch QuickTime Exporter... QuickTime Compression Acceleration using ClustersAs video codecs in QuickTime necessarily become more advanced to achieve higher compression ratios to accommodate viewer expectations, they also become more compute hungry, therefore making the content take longer to...


Platforms: Mac

The Linderdaum Engine is intended to be an Open Source purely object-oriented 3D gaming engine that is written in C++. The engine is designed to be an integrated solution for the development of interactive 3D applications, for game, industrial and scientific visualization.


Platforms: Windows, 2K, XP, Windows Vista, XPX64, 7, 7x64

This multi-purpose media software is for playing MP3, WMA and iTunes files, ripping, burning and organizing a digital media collection. It is packed with features to help you manage your music, photos, videos and podcasts. Encodes to MP3, WMA, OGG and APE. Customizable media views give you...


Platforms: Windows

Hubble in a bottle! is a scientific visualization tool for TIPSY files with plenty of optimizations (3dnow for AMD and SSE for Intel processors) and the ability to run on large supercomputer clusters using the MPI library. The model can be rotated intuitively using quaternions and in real time...


Platforms: *nix