Scientific Visualization

Welcome to the CS 523 - Scientific Visualization home page. Here you will find the latest class information, assignments, handouts, and other useful information. CS 523 is part of the University of Utah's Computational Engineering and Science (CES) Program. If you have any questions or comments, please send them to Chris Johnson at crj@cs.utah.edu.

CS 523 Links:

CS 523 Course Syllabus
Visualization Toolkit Directory This directory data for the Visualization Toolkit (vtk).
Notes Directory This directory contains postscript files of notes.
Assignment Directory This directory contains postscript files of the assignments.
Data Directory This directory contains data files used in the homeworks.
Code Directory This directory contains a listing of various codes used in the homework.
Resources Directory This directory contains postscript files of review/overview materials on Unix, Makefiles, Matlab, etc.
Utility Directory This directory contains various utility files.
Examples of Visualization Techniques Click here for examples of scientific visualization techniques.
1997 Scientific Visualization Projects Click here for links to final projects for the 1997 Scientific Visualization class.
1996 Scientific Visualization Projects Click here for links to final projects for the 1996 Scientific Visualization class.

T.A. Office Hours Schedule:

Nate Robins (nate@cs.utah.edu)

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Thursday, 3445 MEB

Scientific Visualization Software:

Visualization Toolkit The Visualization ToolKit (vtk) is a software system for 3D computer graphics and visualization.
KISMET 3D-Simulation Software Visualization package and simulation system for robotics, medicine, etc.
Pencil: NMR simulationand visualization Visualization for MRI/NMR chemistry apppications
FERRET Visualization package tailored to meteorologists and oceanographers but it is of general applicability.
Flow Analysis Software Toolkit FAST is a software environment for analyzing data from numerical simulations.
Geomview Geomview is an interactive program, written by staff members of the Geometry Center, for viewing and manipulating geometric objects.
Pavane Visualizations in Pavane are specified abstractly, as a mapping from computational states to images on the screen.
PolyPaint+ PolyPaint+ is an interactive scientific visualization tool that displays complex structures within three-dimensional data fields.
HIGHEND The graphicsystem HIGHEND (HIGHEND Interactive Graphics using Hierarchical Experimental and Numerical Data) offers some standard techniques for visualizing threedimensional data.
SSEC Visualization Project The Visualization Project at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison focuses on making advanced visualization techniques useful to Earth scientists in their daily work.
Voyeur Voyeur is a visualization tool that displays a circuit schematic on the screen. It works in conjunction with VCG, a tool that generates schematic layout.
Khoros Khoros includes a visual programming language, a suite of software development tools that extend the visual language and help you create new applications, an interactive user interface editor, an interactive image display package, 2D/3D plotting, and an extensive suite of image processing, data manipulation, scientific visualization, geometry and matrix operators.
Tecate Tecate is a software platform for doing exploratory visualization of data collected from networked data sources.
RasMol Dedicated to the popularization and distribution of RasMol, educational tools for use with RasMol, and other free molecular visualization resources.
Freud Freud is software for visualizing climatological data sets. A graphical user interface facilitates easy display of an unlimited number of overlayed contour and vector plots. Plots can be superimposed on up to six different map projections.
FEMAP FEMAP is a general purpose Pre- and Post-Processor for Engineering Finite Element Analysis. FEMAP provides a standard Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and UNIX Motif interface to 20 Finite Element Analysis Codes.
VFleet VFleet is a volume renderer, which is a program that produces color images from 3D volumes of data.
4D2 4d2 is an interactive visualization tool for time-dependent 3D CFD data containing scalar and vector fields on rectangular grids, and for particle data.
NCAR Graphics NCAR Graphics has been distributed to about 1,500 sites around the world. At its heart lie over two dozen high-level C and Fortran-callable utilities for contouring, mapping, drawing field flows, drawing surfaces, drawing histograms, drawing X/Y plots, labeling, and more.
SciAn SciAn is a scientific visualization and animation package for Silicon Graphics workstations and IBM RS/6000 workstations with the GL option.
Public Domain Software for the SGI Platform
OPTICAL Software Visualization Suite
UVIEW UVIEW is a public domain software package developed by Robert J. McGaughey of the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station as part of UTOOLS. UVIEW is a display system designed to produce two- and three-dimensional images of digital terrain models (DTM), attribute data stored in PARADOX spatial databases, and vegetation patterns at landscape scales.
Parallel visualization software links
NCSA Software A collection of visualization software from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).