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Argus Numerical Environments

A comprehensive general purpose graphical environment for the numerical modeler. These programs enable you to import data from different sources, graphically define problem domains, automatically create finite element meshes and finite difference grids, interpolate data onto these meshes and grids, organize information using GIS and relational databses, export data to any numerical model, and much more.
[http://www.argusint.com/]

AVS

The Application Visual System is a platform-independent GUI software and application development environment. It includes a comprehensive suite of data visualization and analysis capabilities that incorporates traditional tools such as 2D plots, graphs, and image processing as well as advanced tools such as 3D interactive rendering and volume visualization. AVS operates on all major UNIX workstations and supports the full range of graphics hardware available on these.
[http://www.avs.com/]

C-PLOT

A scientific graphics and data analysis package for which I don't have much information yet. Their site is, as they say, under construction.
[http://www.certif.com/]

Data Explorer (IBM)

The IBM Visualization Data Explorer (DX) is a general purpose software package for scientific data visualization and analysis. It employs a data-flow-driven client-server execution model and is currently available on UNIX platforms from Sun, SGI, IBM, HP, DEC and Data General.
[http://www.almaden.ibm.com/dx/]

EnSight

An advanced interactive visualization tool for the postprocessing and animation of results from computational analysis. It has a unique distributed architecture that allows it to handle very large datasets and take advantage of multiple computing platforms. It runs on all major UNIX systems, including supercomputers and minisupercomputers.
[http://www.ceintl.com/]

IDL

An environment for data analysis, visualization, and application development. The features include flexible I/O, 2D plotting, 3D graphics, volume rendering, image processing, integrated mathematics and statistics, a cross-platform GUI toolkit, and a high-level array-oriented programming language. IDL is available for and portable across Windows (3.1, 95 and NT), Mac, PowerMac, UNIX, VMS and Linux.
[http://www.rsinc.com/]

IRIS Explorer

A powerful and easy-to-use sophisticated visualization system and application builder that allows the building of complex applications for visualizing sets of data. As the name implies, it was originally designed for SGI platforms although implementations are now available for Cray, HP, IBM, SGI, and SPARC platforms.
[http://www.nag.co.uk/Welcome_IEC.html]

Macsyma

The latest commercial version of one of the original symbolic analysis programs, although it has been extended to do much more. The capabilities include the aforementioned symbolic algebra and calculus, symbolic and numerical solution of differential equations, linear algebra, graphics, text processing, hypertext and navigation, data acquisition and analysis, and more.
[http://www.macsyma.com/]

Maple

Interactive software for doing mathematics on a wide range of computer platforms and systems. It is fundamentally a powerful symbolic computation system, but also features a graphics interface capable of generating 2D and 3D graphics. A large number of ancillary packages for specialized applications are available in the Maple Share Library. It is available on most UNIX platforms (including Linux) as well as on VMS, Amiga, MS/DOS, and Windows platforms. Maple demonstration versions are available for Sun, HP, DEC RISC, Linux, Mac and Windows platforms.
[http://www.maplesoft.com/]

Matlab

A technical computing environment for high-performance numerical computation and visualization. It integrates numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, and graphics in an environment where problems and solutions are expressed just as they are written mathematically. It is easily extensible and as such many ancillary packages for specific applications, called toolboxes, have been written for Matlab that are both commercially and freely available. Matlab is available for most UNIX platforms (including Linux) as well as for Mac and PC boxes.
[http://www.mathworks.com/]

Mathematica

The features of this package include extensive numerical and symbolic mathematical capabilities, 2D and 3D graphics, a high-level programming language, and numerous commercial and freely available applications. It is available on just about any platform you can think of, including Linux.
[http://www.wri.com/]

NAG Graphics Library

A collection of over 100 routines providing the Fortran 77 programmer with a convenient and versatile means of producing a graphical representation of numerical or statistical results. It consists of a collection of high and low level routines (the former of which call the latter) to perform such tasks as contouring, curve drawing, etc. Standard output devices supported are PostScript, DEC ReGIS, GKS, HPGL, lineprinter and X Windows. Binaries and source are available for UNIX workstations as well as PC platforms.
[http://www.nag.co.uk/visual/GLGICH.html]

PV-WAVE

A software environment for solving problems requiring the application of graphics, mathematics, numerics and statistics to data and equations. It uses a powerful programming language that allows complex analysis, visualization and application development to be performed quickly and easily. It is available on various UNIX platforms (including Linux) and also for Windows.
[http://www.vni.com/]

Qplot

A C graphics library that allows you to draw easy color plots. It runs on Linux, compiles with gcc, and displays on X Windows. A free demo is available.
[http://www.apl2000.com/qplot.htm]

REDUCE

An interactive program designed for general algebraic computations of interest to mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. The capabilities include expansion and ordering of polynomials and rational functions, automatic and user-controlled simplification of expressions, calculations with symbolic matrices, arbitrary precision integer and real arithmetic, analytic differentiation and integration, solution of algebraic equations, output of expressions in a variety of formats (including TeX source code), generation of optimized numerical programs from symbolic input, and much more. Many packages written for REDUCE are also available. It is available for most UNIX platforms (including Linux) as well as for PCs running MS/DOS or Windows. Graphics are displayed via an interface to GNUPLOT. REDUCE demonstration versions are available for MS/DOS, Windows 3.1 and Linux platforms.
[http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/REDUCE/]

SciMath

An advanced scientific math library featuring hundreds of the most frequently used mathematical library functions. Features include transforms, optimization, linear algebra, quadrature/integration, PDEs, approximation, roots and zeros, nonlinear functions, DEs, eigensystems and much more. This is sold in binary form for a variety of DOS 16 and 32 bit compilers and for SUN-OS systems.
[http://www.scimath.com/]

Template Graphics Systems

The products of TGS include FIGraph, a two-call 2D/3D charting system to quickly generate line, bar, pie and contour graphs, FIGraph, a system to represent complex engineering, scientific, and business data sets, FIGARO+, a complete PHIGS+ development system for all workstation, mainframe, supercomputer and Windows NT systems, and SGI OpenGL and Open Inventor packages for non-SGI platforms. Their products are distributed by NAG.
[http://www.nag.co.uk/visual/TGS.html]

3DVIEWNIX

A transportable software system with state-of-the-art capabilities for visualizing, manipulating, and analyzing multidimensional, multimodal image information. It is designed to run on UNIX machines under X Windows, and as such is available for most popular UNIX platforms, including Linux. 3DVIEWNIX demonstration versions are available for Sun, SGI, Linux, and HP platforms.
[http://mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu/~Vnews/]

XSDL

A scalable C graphics library designed for use with real- and non-real-time operating systems. It is written in ANSI C and is supplied as source code. It includes a generic graphics driver module to provide hardware specific routines needed to interface it to the user's graphics hardware, and can be readily ported to a new system by changing this one module.
[http://www.rastergr.com/]

XVScan

A package to add scanning capability with HP ScanJet scanners to XV, John Bradley's image manipulation software. XVScan allows images to be directly acquired from an HP ScanJet scanner quickly and efficiently. XVScan currently (4/96) works with Linux and HP-UX workstations.
[http://www.tummy.com/xvscan]

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Last checked or updated: Oct. 5, 1998

S. Baum
Dept. of Oceanography
Texas A&M University