NHSE Software Catalog

SciAn Scientific Visualization Package

url

http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~lyons/scian/

author

scian-authors@scri.fsu.edu

version

0.853

abstract

SciAn is a scientific visualization and animation program for Silicon
Graphics and IBM RISC/Sytem 6000 workstations. It was developed at the
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute at Florida State University
to help meet the daily visualization needs of our scientists.
SciAn is primarily intended to do 3-D visualizations of data in an
interactive environment with the ability to generate animations using
frame-accurate video recording devices.

contact

scian-info@scri.fsu.edu

keywords

data visualization

environment

C; Silicon Graphics 4D and IBM RISC/Sytem 6000 workstations

comments

On all workstations, SciAn ABSOLUTELY REQUIRES a Z-buffer. If you try
to run it on a workstation that does not have a Z-buffer, you will get
strange results.