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From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SGI data visualization program. What is the current status ??
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Date: 14 Mar 91 03:09:16 GMT
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Back at Siggraph '91 I noticed with some interest that SG was recruiting
for a team to work on a new scientific visualization software suite headed up
by Craig Upson of AVS fame from Stardent.

[ I hope this isn't too far wrong, since it was a pretty tough week socially
and my memory may be subsequently a bit askew with the exact details here :-) ]

Does anyone (perhaps even from Mountain View) have any light to shed on the
current status of this project?? 

I've been looking closely in recent months at apE (from Ohio Supercomputer 
Centre) and Wavefront's Data Visualizer but both seem to be at an early stage 
of development in terms of functionality and stability. I even had a good look 
at AVS on a loaner Decstation 5100 and it looks pretty damn good, but that's 
*not* what I want since AVS doen't ship on SG machines and that is all 
I have - a room full of SG boxes :-)

Any info on this would be more than welcome.

	ian
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