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1. Platforms, Price, and Company

·         SGI graphics workstation with a zbuffer and an IRIX 4.x or late operating system

·         Price $$-$$$$

·         NAS, a division of NASA: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/

2. Applications

·         FAST is a software environment for analyzing data from numerical simulations. It allow scientists to examine the results of numerical simulations by loading data files, performing calculations on the data, visualizing the results of these calculations, and constructing scenes of 3D graphical objects that may be animated and recorded.

3. Examples/Sample

·         Images and animations: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/software/FAST/gallery.html

4. Web Resources

·         Home page of FAST:   http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Software/FAST/

·         FAST User Guide:        http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Software/FAST/RND-93-010.walatka-clucas/

·         http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/projects/FAST/