Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucla-cs!ucivax!bonnie.ics.uci.edu!ktayama
From: ktayama@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Katsumi Tayama)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: apE vs. AVS
Message-ID: <27B10350.29443@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 07:35:44 GMT
References: <1044@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: ktayama@ics.uci.edu (Katsumi Tayama)
Distribution: usa
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Lines: 22
Nntp-Posting-Host: bonnie.ics.uci.edu

In article <1044@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> mosko@leconte.math.ucla.edu (Bradley Moskowitz) writes:
>It seems to me at first glance that AVS from Stardent is very similar to apE
>in its approach. Is there any connection between them, e.g. one based on the
>other in concept, or are they two very different systems ? Thank you for any
>comments in this regard.
>


According to:
Dyer, D. Scott
A dataflow toolkit for visualization (apE)
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 10: 60-9 Jl '90

the two systems are developed completely independently.
See also:
Upson, Craig  Faulhaber, Thomas  Kamins, David
The Application Visualization System: a computational
environment for scientific visualization
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 9: 30-42 Jl '89

Kats
ktayama@ics.uci.edu