Open Visualization Data Explorer (OpenDX)

1. Platform, Prices, Company
• IBM RISC System6000, Sun, HP, SGI, DEC Alpha
• OpenDX is freeware.
• IBM, the original developer of DX: http://www.research.ibm.com
2. Applications
• IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer (OpenDX) is an application and development software package for visualizing data, especially 3D data from simulations or acquired from observations.
  http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/
3. Functionality
• Open Visualization Data Explorer is a visualization framework that gives users the ability to apply advanced visualization and analysis techniques to their data. Data Explorer provides a full set of tools for manipulating, transforming, processing, realizing, rendering and animating data and allow for visualization and analysis methods based on points, lines, areas, volumes, images or geometric primitives in any combination. Data Explorer is discipline-independent and easily adapts to new applications and data.
• Features
• Flexible Data Importing and Exporting functions
• Application developer's toolkit
• Easy to use user interface features
• Hardware rendering
• Read/write compressed images
• Dynamically loadable modules
• One-shots (for simulation)
4. Examples/Samples
• http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/imageGallery/index.html
• http://www.opendx.org/highlights.php?highlight=inaction/others/
• http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/01-opendx-01.html
5. Web Resources
• http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/docs/legacyhtml/refguide.htm
• http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/docs/legacyhtml/proguide.htm
• www.opendx.org
• http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/software/open_dx_4.1/pages/qikgu020.htm
• http://gd.tuwien.ac.at:8050/D/1/OPENDX.html
• http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/visualization.html