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- From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson)
- Subject: 3D visualization software for VAX/VMS sought
- Message-ID: <dlhanson.20.724961508@nap.amoco.com>
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- Organization: These are my opinions.
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:11:48 GMT
-
-
- This post is actually from a co-worker and is similar to one I sent out
- last week asking for information on PC packages.
- Her request follows:
-
- I am about to tackle a data analysis/visualization project, and I'm looking
- for data plotting packages with the following characteristics (in approximate
- order of importance for my problem).
-
- o Runs on a VAX under VMS.
-
- o Must be capable of producing 3-D color-shaded surfaces and of rotating
- surfaces and coordinate axes to any selected angle/azimuth.
-
- o Invokable interactively and by some sort of "macro" execution (so I
- can save my analysis steps, and modify them).
-
- o Includes in its command set all the programming functionality to import
- data, build if/then/else, do/while, do/until, etc. constructs; has a
- full set of built-in math functions; has ability to fit/transform data
- to standard forms, etc. . . .
-
- o Has ability to open/close multiple windows and manage 3-D contents in
- each simultaneously, decipher mouse-button actions and graphical cursor
- coordinates originating from each.
-
- I'm aware of the product called PV-Wave (from Precision Visuals, Boulder CO)
- that would be excellent, and of an upcoming release of MATLAB (from The
- MathWorks, Inc.) that may meet many of these needs, but would like to
- investigate other packages of similar or superior functionality.
-
- If you are aware of anything that you think would fit the bill, please
- e-mail to me and/or post. (Please include a contact for the vendor or
- distributor if possible.)
-
- Thanks
-
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