Tutorial - Working with IRIS Explorer

Presenter:Dr. Jeremy Walton, NAG Ltd

Abstract

IRIS Explorer is a visualisation toolkit originally developed by SGI for their workstations, and which is now developed and distributed by NAG on a variety of platforms, including: Working with IRIS Explorer, the user interactively creates an application by connecting modules together using a point-and-click interface. The application can be distributed across a heterogeneous network, and its interface can be easily customised before being passed to an end-user. The user can extend the functionality of IRIS Explorer by creating new modules using bundled development tools.

This course provides a brief hands-on introduction to IRIS Explorer, and shows how to create applications from the modules that are distributed with the system. A variety of application areas - including image processing, flow field visualisation, molecular graphics, finite element display and other scientific visualisation examples - are illustrated. Editing applications and customising their interface is also described in some detail. Finally, the extension of the toolkit through the development of new modules is discussed, with a description of the module development tools that are bundled with IRIS Explorer.