Bug#234868: RFP: IFRIT -- IFRIT 2 is a powerful tool that can be used to visualize 3-dimensional data sets. Aimed at science, it has a different emphasis to other visualisation packages such as AVS
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : IFRIT
Version : 2.7
Upstream Author : gnedin@casa.colorado.edu
* URL : http://casa.colorado.edu/~gnedin/IFRIT/
* License : (GPL or QPL plus non-commercial use)
Description : IFRIT is a tool to visualize 3-dimensional data sets, aimed at scientific usage
IFRIT has its origins (and hence name) in a specialized utility
designed to visualize ionization fronts in cosmological numerical
simulations. But IFRIT has outgrown its origins and now can visualize
general data sets as well.
IFRIT is similar in its capabilities to the commercially available
products like Amira or AVS, but is based on a different
philosophy. Most of the commercial products allow you to construct the
pipeline of your visualization process. The pipeline model gives you a
lot of flexibility, but this flexibility comes at a price of having to
construct a pipeline even for simple visualizations. IFRIT, instead,
limits your flexibility somewhat by giving you only a fixed set of
widget controls, but then you can accomplish very complicated
visualizations with IFRIT with only a few mouse clicks.
An important feature of IFRIT that distinguishes it from most other
visualization tools is that it has highly developed support for
displaying particles. Particles are rarely used in industry, but are
very common in science.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-pre7
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU
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