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Data Visualization Packages
(IDL, PV-Wave, AVS, VTK, ...)
Large-scale data visualization used to be the domain of supercomputers and specialized software toolkits. But with the advance of computers and graphics hardware, as well as the development of new generations of algorithms and interface technologies, Mathematica has been able to make high-quality automated data visualization a routine part of everyday computational work.
While traditional data visualization packages tend to require extensive ancillary programming and setup, Mathematica's unified architecture allows it to take an integrated approach that is both vastly simpler and more streamlined and achieves higher levels of quality and performance.
With immediate import in hundreds of standard and specialized formats and integrated access to external databases and web data sources, Mathematica provides the world's richest language for processing and transforming data. And drawing on its vast array of sophisticated numeric, geometric and discrete algorithms, as well as Wolfram Research's award-winning information design team, Mathematica provides a new generation of static and dynamic visualization that scales from immediate one-off projects to fully automated industrial-scale production systems.
With its unique document-centered interface, Mathematica allows you to integrate live visualization directly into documents, and export it in all standard screen, print and web formats. And with its instant interface creation technology, Mathematica also allows you to create fully interactive visualizations that provide a new level of dynamic experience for exploring data.
Data Visualization Package Features in Mathematica:
- State-of-the-art real-time 3D graphics
- Fully scalable system handling arbitrarily large datasets
- Point, line, surface, and contour displays »
- Uniform handling of structured and unstructured data
- Seamless support for arbitrary mesh geometric data structures »
- Full control over lighting, transparency, surface properties, etc. »
- Rich array-oriented programming language »
- Import of data in hundreds of standard and specialized formats »
- Support for scientific, medical, GIS, etc. formats (HDF, FITS, DICOM, SDTS, etc.) »
- Export to all standard vector, raster, multimedia and geometry formats »
- Fully compatible on all standard and emerging computer platforms »
- C/C++, Java, .NET, etc. API for access by other systems »
Key Advantages of Mathematica for Data Visualization:
- Fully integrated system, supporting all aspects of data handling
- Immediate support for adaptive function, equation and inequality visualization »
- Computational aesthetics for automated optimization of graphics styling and layout »
- Built-in statistical analysis, modeling, exploratory data analysis, etc. »
- Symbolic graphics language allowing creation of arbitrary geometric structures »
- Support for arbitrary overlay meshing, region clipping and interpolation »
- Integrated surface reconstruction from arbitrary 3D data »
- Integrated support for 3D and other human interface devices »
- Built-in support for 3D printing formats »
- Seamless support for animation; export to Flash and other formats »
- Immediate ability to combine live graphics in arbitrary layouts
- Live graphics fully integrated into scrollable documents
- Instant creation of interactive interfaces with real-time parameter controls »
- Immediately embed tooltips, annotation and arbitrary drill-down features »
- Full support for sampled and note-based data sonification »
- Support for resolution-independent export and printing (PDF, etc.)
- Built-in automated network and graph visualization »
- Built-in geographic, chemical, financial, etc. curated databases and visualization »
- Integration with all standard SQL databases, web services, etc. »
- Support for modern grid computing environments »
- All operations immediately scriptable
- Full professional programming language and development environment
- Web deployment through webMathematica
Interoperability with Data Visualization Packages:
- Import and export of all standard data and geometry formats »
- General MathLink API for bidirectional connection to external systems
- Full Java, .NET, etc. integration
Interesting Tidbits:
- Mathematica is used to automate visualization in many industrial settings
- Mathematica visualizations regularly appear on the covers of top scientific journals
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