Open 3D Scientific Visualization Toolkit

Mark Leaman writes "The Science Museum of Minnesota has just announced an online community site for scientific visualization, including thier Open 3D Visualization Toolkit that includes Blender and the GIMP as part of the core development tools. Frustrated with a lack of consolidated resources and discussion about open-source, scientific visualization development tools, the Science Museum of Minnesota's Learning Technologies Department decided to develop their own."

Comments

Re:K-POW

[HardeH]

Maybe you should give VTK, OpenDX, VisIT or Paraview a try, all of which are just some of the scientific visualisation community's tools of choice (and hey, they're OSS, mostly cross-platform as well).

The following software is available:

[Wills]

Open-source Visualisation software:

"[We, the Science Musuem of Minnesota,] are frustrated by a lack of consolidated resources and discussion about open-source, scientific visualization development tools"

Counter-examples:

• OpenDX - powerful data visualisation software
  • Open source but downloading requires you to register and to acknowledge their patents. This software became open-source in 1999
  • as first discussed here on Slashdot (why does Slashdot still use the same old Slashcode which even after 7 years of development still destroys the nesting of all its archived articles after 2 weeks???)
  
  
• Vis5d - has a unique interface for explicit 5d data visualisation
  • Open source but development has ceased.
  
  
• Webwinds - 3d data visualisation software
  • Open source, Java.
  
  
• LinkWinds - 3d data visualisation software
  • Open source but restricted download and development has ceased.
  
  
• OpenQVIS - 3d realtime volume visualisation on commodity desktop computers
  • Open source.