UCSC Scientific Visualization Laboratory Software

This is a list of the most significant software installed on the system. An exhaustive list would have many hundreds of entries, and would be difficult to read. Interested users may consult the versions command on viz, which lists every package on the system with a terse description. Everything that came with IRIX 6.5 and our Varsity subscription (including their freeware disk) is installed. This list is meant to cover everything else.

All the software should be available in your environment by default. All available "softcopy" documentation (man pages and tutorials) are also installed. Should you have any trouble with these, please contact the vizlab manager right away.

In many cases, hardcopy documentation is also availabe for short-term borrowing from the vizlab manager.

Installed software on viz:

NameInvocationComments
Adobe PremierepremiereFor compositing movies.
Forms libraryfdesign, or roll your ownA toolkit for building GUIs. See the man page for xforms or fdesign.
GLUTLink with -lglut ...A simple toolkit for handling the windowing side of OpenGL programs. See the man page for glut.
GMTgmtA set of mapping tools. Home page is http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gmt.html
IBM Data ExplorerdxA very general, but slow and resource-intensive, 3D visualization system. Home page is http://www.almaden.ibm.com/dx
IDLidlData analysis and simple visualization programming language. Home page is http://www.rsinc.com
MaplemapleSymbolic algebra package.
MatLabmatlabHigh level matrix and data analysis functions
netCDFLink with -lnetcdfToolkit for writing portable binary files on disk.