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IBM Open-Sources 3D Data Visualization Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check-out-the-fun-stuff dept.

Effugas writes " IBM has just released IBM Visualization Data Explorer under an Open Source license. Appears to be an impressively complex and powerful 3D data manipulation tool. If this is the same stuff I saw running back at LinuxWorld(realtime solid model deformation calculations of a crashing vehicle) I'm impressed. "

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  1. This looks like khoros. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    This looks like khoros. Khoros lets you drag
    and connect little image processing boxes
    together to run experiments. Is this thing
    close? Compare and contrast. Extra points for
    source code examples (just kidding).

    And is anyone following the Khoros licencing?
    They used to be open source, but it seemed
    for a while they were going backward!

    -- cary

    Khoros is at http://www.khoral.com

  2. Other packages... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    While this DX is quite different ( and more powerful), people might be interested to know about other Open Source visualisation software :

    The General Mesh Viewer:

    www-xdiv.lanl.gov/XCM/gmv/GMVHome.htm l

    Maverik:

    aig.cs.man.ac.uk/systems/Maverik/


  3. You have no idea how awesome this software is by jabbo · · Score: 5

    unless you have used it. I was working on trying to get around several of the (patented) techniques used in DX so as to build my own version of it... I guess I can finish writing that DX2Octave module that I was going to finish when I was at Cornell.

    This software is *very* impressive. The screen shots on www.almaden.ibm.com don't convey what's really cool about DX -- check out this page for a better idea of how DX makes really nasty visualization tasks simple.

    This rules as much as SGI releasing XFS, not to put too fine a point on it. (Although SGI appears not to be releasing LVM support for XFS -- d'oh.)

    Looks like I've got my activity for the rest of this week's afternoons (at least). Now I just need to send notes to everyone I tried to explain DX to saying "Just download it, it's Free now".

    --
    Remember that what's inside of you doesn't matter because nobody can see it.
  4. So where is the license? by kfogel · · Score: 3

    Until they show the actual license, there
    is no way to know if it really will be
    "Open Source". I searched all around the
    site for it, no sign.

    Remembering Apple,
    -Karl

    --
    http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel
  5. License not released yet by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 3
    IBM has not yet released the license. Let's wait for them to release it.

    By the way, if you've been looking for me or my net sites, my darned DSL provider, "Dspeed", went out of business. It's just as well, considering how many outages I had. Covad now has to switch all of their dspeed.net customers elsewhere, and might take a week to get that done.

    Use bruce@va.debian.org until further notice.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  6. Re:Everyone and their mothers by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 2

    This looks like an old license. The page is dated July 1998 and doesn't look remotely "open-sourced". It talks about it being a "trial version" and limited functionality. I dunno how they can limit the functionality and release source code, which their main site claims they will be doing. I suspect a NEW license will be available when the download is ready.

    --

    -- Don't Tase me, bro!

  7. Data explorer to Matlab by choo · · Score: 2

    I've written a Data Explorer to Matlab module.
    So you can call Matlab from Data Explorer.
    Take a look:
    http://www.people.corne ll.edu/pages/sc110/dx2mat/dx2mat.htm

  8. Data explorer Mpegs by choo · · Score: 2

    Oh, and check out some cool mpegs done in Data Explorer:
    http://www.tc .cornell.edu/Visualization/contrib/cs418-sp94/cs41 8.html