SCS VisLab:

• Hardware
• Mission
• File System
• PowerWall FAQ *NEW
• CUDA FAQ *NEW
• Available Software
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• Videos
• Tutorials
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• System Status
• Software Installation Notes
• User Feedback
• Stereo Workstation Guide

We present some tutorials on some of the visualization software available in the Visualization Lab, to help first users come up to speed with minimal effort. For each software application, we present the commands, input files, etc. required to generate a simple image. We also point out the location of relevant documentation and examples.

How-To's

• coming soon...

Software Documentation

Amira

• Amira 4.1 User's Guide
• Amira 4.1 Reference Guide
• Users's guide to Amira 3.1
• Introduction to the VisLab and Introduction to Amira
• Amira Tutorial for Creating Stereo (3D) Movies

Gnuplot

• GNUPLOT 4.0 - A Brief Manual and Tutorial
• Tips: Not so frequenty asked questions. Really excellent resource!! Highly recommended.

Mathematica

• Mathematica Graphics: An Intensive Tutorial A series of six postscript files to download that explain all the issues relating to the generation of graphics plots using Mathematica.
• A collection of images generated with Mathematica with associated source code.
• Mathematics Graphics Gallery (using Mathematica) Not exactly a tutorial, but the images are inspiring.

Maple

• Simple graphics with Maple There are no images in this tutorial, but it is only a few pages long and useful.
• Math Resources related to Maple, including graphics.
• How to convert Maple plots into web images

Matlab

• Matlab 5.1 Graphics manual
• Matlab file exchange for graphics. There are many examples of graphics program with the source code included.

Unix (Assorted)

• Beginners Shell Scripting for Batch Jobs. An introduction to shell scripts with examples for batch image conversion.

Additional Visualization Examples

• PSC Scientific Visualization Gallery. Please click on the individual images for more galleries, animations and text.
• SCV Visualizations. Click on a visualization on the left frame to get more detailed explanations of the imagery.
• Visualization of Mathematical Functions.
• Slicer Dicer Visualization Gallery.
• Scientific Visualization Examples.
• LBL Image Gallery.
• Creative Interaction Visualization Laboratory. Access to papers and software