Scientific Visualization with Mac OS X

spectatorion writes "O'Reilly is running this article by quantum chemist Drew McCormack about developing scientific visualization applications using Mac OS X. From the article, 'For those of you not familiar with VTK, it is to visualization what Cocoa is to application development: VTK provides a high-level object-oriented framework which allows you to easily visualize 3D data sets without having to write any low-level OpenGL code.' Definitely a good read for any scientists trying to develop for Mac OS X."

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OpenDX also runs on OS X

[Space Coyote]

I've been doing some work with OpenDX recently to visualize data collected for some parallel computing projects I've been working on as a grad student. It's an open source visualization toolkit from IBM which runs mainly on unix and Windows (requires an X11 server).

Anyway, they've recently got it running on Mac OS X and is certainly worth checking out along with the software discussed in the article.

Good showcase for apple.

[jericho4.0]

I thought that article would be a great place to direct any developer asking 'what's so great about OS X, anyway?". It shows of some of the best features of Obj-C, the cleanness of Cocoa, and Project Builder.

for anyone interested in visualization, check out Open Scene Graph, a fast maturing LGPL project that is well suited to games. (and science/med/etc.) Almost zero documentation , though, but that'll change.