What tools are available to help create Science On a Sphere® visualizations?
Science On a Sphere® uses basic image formats like JPEG, PNG, and TIFF as it’s main input format. Many tools exist that can manipulate images, Photoshop, FinalCut Pro, ImageMagick, GIMP, etc. At a higher level, tools like IDL, AWIPS, McIDAS, and other image analysis applications are typically used to create imagery from scientific data sets. As an example, we have used AWIPS (Advanced Weather Information Processing System) to create images from numerical forecast models. A graphics designers can use a 3D modeling applications, like 3D Studio, to create advanced visualizations for SOS. Also, there is a tool available with SOS for creating and managing play lists. It is called the play list editor application. It is a GUI based application that makes creating new and modifying existing play lists easy. Using the editor, you can open multiple play lists, drag and drop clips between the clips, rearrange the clip entries, all through a simple graphical interface. The play list editor is ava
Science On a Sphere® uses basic image formats like JPEG, PNG, and TIFF as it’s main input format. Many tools exist that can manipulate images, Photoshop, FinalCut Pro, ImageMagick, GIMP, etc. At a higher level, tools like IDL, AWIPS, McIDAS, and other image analysis applications are typically used to create imagery from scientific data sets. As an example, we have used AWIPS (Advanced Weather Information Processing System) to create images from numerical forecast models. A graphics designers can use a 3D modeling applications, like 3D Studio, to create advanced visualizations for SOS. Also, there is a tool available with SOS for creating and managing playlists. It is called the playlist editor application. It is a GUI based application that makes creating new and modifying existing playlists easy. Using the editor, you can open multiple playlists, drag and drop clips between the clips, rearrange the clip entries, all through a simple graphical interface. The playlist editor is availabl
