Scientific Visualization

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... Platforms: *nix

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. Platforms: Windows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientific Linux is a Linux release put together by various labs and universities around the world. Scientific Linuxs primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimentors. The base Scientific Linux distribution is basically... Platforms: *nix

VisIt is an interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

SciGraphica is a scientific data visualization and analysis application, supplying many of the basic plotting features for 2D and 3D charts. It features opening several worksheets and plots to work with at the same time and PS output. Platforms: *nix

Vis5d is intended as a central repository for enhanced versions and development work on Vis5d, a free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3 dimensions. Some of the main enhancements in Vis5d include: - autoconf/automake build process: building Vis5d can now... Platforms: *nix, C/C++, BSD

gMol is an interactive visualization system used to display and manipulate 3-dimensional models of scientific data, such as molecular structures and surfaces. It contains both OpenGL and web browser widgets that enable flexible user interfaces. Platforms: *nix

XMMS Root Visualization Plugin is a little XMMS plugin wich can draw a spectrum analyzer directly to the background (root window) of X. Whats New in This Release: - changed code to get rid of gcc 4 compiler warnings - added alpha channel to all colors - rewrote configuration backend -... Platforms: *nix

Chart::Scientific is a Perl module that can generate simple 2-D scientific plots with logging, errbars, etc. SYNOPSIS Procedural interface use Chart::Scientific qw/make_plot/; make_plot ( x_data => @x_values, y_data => @yvalues ); The subroutine make_plot creates a Chart::Scientific... Platforms: *nix

Scientific Linux is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters. The base SL distribution is basically... Platforms: *nix