Abstract

The use of IRIS Explorer, a data visualisation toolkit, is described with reference to some examples from the fields of chemistry, computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis. Some of the new features in the latest version of the toolkit are highlighted, and its relationship to other technologies such as the NAG Fortran 77 library, Open Inventor and VRML are discussed in detail. Keywords: IRIS Explorer; Open Inventor; software re-use; VRML 1 Introduction The important role which visualisation plays in the interpretation of data has been recognised for a long time. Much progress has been made in academic research and industrial development towards the goal of producing modern data display software that is powerful, and yet easy to invoke, modify and extend. In this paper we discuss the use of IRIS Explorer, a data visualisation toolkit, in the analysis of scientific data, and outline the way in which it makes use of complementary software technologies in its architecture...

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