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Higher-dimensional Tools

AMIRA by TGS
AMIRA is a turnkey viewer for 3D datasets. It is sold by the same people who make OpenInventor. It has associated tools for using it on the CAVE, which we haven't tested.
EnSight by CEI
This is a turnkey viewer of 3D datasets. It says it has a VR component and outputs VRML, which would display in the CAVE.
Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST)
Version 1.3, $2000 commercial, $200 academic. From the web site, "FAST is a software environment for analyzing data from numerical simulations. Though somewhat tailored towards CFD visualisation, this package can be used to visualize any scalar and vector data that can be mapped to a Plot3d or Unstructured grid. The package includes tools for such things as calculating user defined scalar and vector quantities from the original data, generating surfaces, particle traces, and isosurfaces as well as determining topological features of vector fields. FAST won NASA's 1995 Software of the Year Award!"
MayaVi
This open source program lets you drag and drop modules together to form visualizations of higher-dimensional data. It uses VTK underneath, is fairly easy to use, and has been expanding its capabilities.
AMIRA by TGS
AMIRA is a turnkey viewer for 3D datasets. It is sold by the same people who make OpenInventor. It has associated tools for using it on the CAVE, which we haven't tested.
EnSight by CEI
This is a turnkey viewer of 3D datasets. It says it has a VR component and outputs VRML, which would display in the CAVE.
Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST)
Version 1.3, $2000 commercial, $200 academic. From the web site, "FAST is a software environment for analyzing data from numerical simulations. Though somewhat tailored towards CFD visualisation, this package can be used to visualize any scalar and vector data that can be mapped to a Plot3d or Unstructured grid. The package includes tools for such things as calculating user defined scalar and vector quantities from the original data, generating surfaces, particle traces, and isosurfaces as well as determining topological features of vector fields. FAST won NASA's 1995 Software of the Year Award!"
MayaVi
This open source program lets you drag and drop modules together to form visualizations of higher-dimensional data. It uses VTK underneath, is fairly easy to use, and has been expanding its capabilities.