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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Graphics systems used in visualization
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Date: 3 Sep 90 16:02:20 GMT
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Our department recently got a NSF educational infrastructure grant for
developing a scientific computing & visualization course for
undergraduates.

I'm on the hardware/software evaluation committee.

We're currently expecting to use several general purpose computing
machines (IBM RS600, DEC DS5000's HP, etc) and a couple of graphics
systems. One aspect of the class is scientific visualization. Student
will both use commercial systems and develop software using graphics
libraries.

So far, we've come to the conclusion that the SGI library is The Way
To Go for student developed applications. Likewise, Wavefront is the
current rave for animation.

Are these impressions true, and are there other packages that are
fairly standard and possibly more widely available?

I would prefer comments from people actively working in the field, or
from techs working for the various companies making rendering hardware
or software.

Thanks in advance.

Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
						(grunwald@boulder.colorado.edu)