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From: bstewart@bnlux1.bnl.gov (Bruce Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: What can you do with an IRIS 3130?
Message-ID: <1991May16.175530.27752@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
Date: 16 May 91 17:55:30 GMT
References: <1991May16.041205.20522@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
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In article <1991May16.041205.20522@mel.dit.csiro.au> smart@manta.mel.dit.csiro.au (Robert Smart) writes:
>We have acquired an old IRIS 3130. Is there anything useful one can
>do with such a thing?

Two packages of free software which run on older Iris models:


           Data Visualization Tools for the Silicon Graphics Workstations
                             from the Princeton University
                          Interactive Computer Graphics Laboratory

                    This software was written to enable the graphic
                  representation of many different kinds of data.  It is
                  intended to help one better understand the data by revealing
                  patterns and characteristics, both simple and complex, that
                  may be contained in the data.

                    This suite of tools is particularly useful for visualizing
                  two dimensional arrays of data values.  That is, any program
                  or instrument which produces output in the form of a table
                  of numbers with some number of rows and columns produces
                  data which can be analyzed by these graphics tools.
                  Multiple planes of tables can be studied one plane at a time
                  or by putting several planes on the screen individually but
                  simultaneously.

Available by anonymous ftp to itnsg1.cineca.it;

and interactive software for visualizing trajectories of simple dynamical
sytems in phase space, comes with extensive tutorial exercises
for learning concepts of nonlinear dynamics, available from
bnlux0.bnl.gov (soon from bnlux1.bnl.gov) in ~ftp/pub/chaos.tar.Z.