Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!decwrl!shelby!portia!hanauma!rick From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Scientific Visualization again Message-ID: <7153@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 89 04:55:41 GMT References: <11726@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <1989Nov25.142552.1702@hellgate.utah.edu> <3399@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <5646@eos.UUCP> <1989Nov30.222404.2817@csustan.CSUStan.Edu> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: rick@hanauma.UUCP (Richard Ottolini) Organization: Stanford University, Dept. of Geophysics Lines: 13 Jim Helman at Stanford divides SciVis into NerdVis and EdVis. I think this distinction is mainly one of quality. In our laboratory our better research graphics software migrates into courseware. Better is defined as generalized to many datasets and an easy-to-use interface. These are not toy programs, but industrial strength crunchers manipulating tens of megabytes of data. This happens because our lab director is committed to teaching despite the indifference of federal and industrial grant agencies. Interactive graphics software is difficult to write. Better toolkits are needed to hide unnecessary details of the computer for the average scientist. People at some workstation companies and the supercomputer centers are developing some interesting things, but there is a ways to go. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com