JSciVision

JSciVision is intended to be a reliable, modularized and extendable Visualization Framework to be used by the scientific community.

User Guide

JSciVision comes with an integrated help system which contents are replicated in form of wiki pages on this project site. The following sites available so far are:

GUI Overview

This page gives an introductory overview of the JSciVision GUI.

NetCDF Wizard

The NetCDF Wizard to create Visualizations from NetCDF files is explained here.

Scalar Maps and Widgets

This site explains how to map variables to displayable quantities.

Render Modes

The different Render Modes available in JSciVision are explained on this site.

Render Settings

Learn about the JSciVision Render Settings here.

Screenshots

You can find screen shots of JSciVision in action on the Screenshots page.

Components and Concepts

This section tells you about the external components JSciVision is based on.

Eclipse Equinox

Equinox is a Java Framework provided by the Eclipse Foundation that implements the OSGi specification. Equinox is the base framework for JSciVision. It enables to develop JSciVision as a set of small and decoupled bundles instead of a monolithic software core that can only be extended by plugins. This plugable and highly customizable software approach is know as Rich Client

VisAD

The VisAD Plugin edu.wisc.ssec.visad wraps the VisAD component library. The original and still maintained project page can be found here.

NetCDF

The NetCDF Plugin is a Wrapper Bundle for the NetCDF-Java library provided open-source and free of charge by Unidata on their NetCDF-Java homepage.