Many different languages and programming environments can be used to design visualizations. Some, such as AVS and OpenDX, use a visual programming structure that allows users to construct programs via point-and-click. Other languages, such as Java and C++, have bindings to different graphics libraries (2D and 3D), which allow you to build significant applications, though the programmer needs a fair amount of programming experience to accomplish this. In between are languages such as Processing that try to hide some of the low level details of the programming language, allowing you to rapidly construct nontrivial visualizations. On this web site, we show some examples of such programs.
Available Sample Programs:
A Processing Program for Terrain Visualization
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A Processing Program to View Slices of Flow Data
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A Java Program to View Slices of Flow Data
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A Java Program to View different class breaks yield different Choropleth Maps
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A Processing Program to draw a map with real data
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