VisAD is a Java component library for interactive and collaborative visualization and analysis of numerical data. The name VisAD is an acronym for "Visualization for Algorithm Development". It has been developed by programmers at the SSEC Visualization Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, by programmers at the Unidata Program Center, by programmers at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, and by programmers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Class files and source available at the VisAD home page http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html
To use the class files, you must set the classpath. This can be done either with each call to java using
>java -cp .;C:\visad_dir\visad.jar ProgramName (on a PC)
>java -cp .:/home/user/visadf/visad.jar ProgramName (on Unix)
or once by setting the classpath with
>set CLASSPATH=.;C:\VISAD_DIR\VISAD.JAR (on a PC)
>setenv CLASSPATH /home/user/visadf/visad.jar:. (on Unix)
Here are some useful sources of information on the use of VisAD (in order of increasing complexity):
VisAD uses Java3D, which gives it visualization power. A simple way to use this power is to use the VisAD spreadsheet, info at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~curtis/ss.html . Info on data formatting is available at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/README.text
Update 3.4.02
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