IBM Visualization Data Explorer Programmer's Reference

Related Publications and Sources

IBM Publications

• IBM Visualization Data Explorer User's Guide, SC38-0496

  Details the main features of Data Explorer, including the data model, data import, the user interface, the Image window, and the visual program editor. and the scripting language. Of particular interest to programmers: chapters on the data model and the scripting language.

• IBM Visualization Data Explorer User's Reference, SC38-0486

  Contains detailed descriptions of Data Explorer's tools.

  Note: Consult this reference if you are creating visual programs or scripts.

• IBM Visualization Data Explorer Programmer's Reference, SC38-0497

  Contains detailed descriptions of the Data Explorer library routines.

  Note: Consult this reference if you are writing your own modules for Data Explorer.

Non-IBM Publications

The following treat various aspects of computer graphics and visualization:

Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Incorporated, OpenDX: Paths To Visualization, VIS, Inc., Montana, 2000.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, PostScript Language Reference Manual, 2nd Ed., Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, 1990.

Aldus Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, Tag Image File Format Specification, Revision 5.0, Aldus Corporation, Washington, 1988.

Arvo, Jim, ed., Graphics Gems II, Academic Press, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1991.

Foley, J.D., van Dam, A., Feiner, S.K., Hughes, J.F., Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company; Massachusetts, 1990.

Friedhoff, Richard M., and Benzon, William, Visualization: The Second Computer Revolution, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989.

Glassner, Andrew, ed., Graphics Gems, Academic Press, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1990.

Hill, F.S., Jr., Computer Graphics. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1990.

Kirk, David, ed., Graphics Gems III, Academic Press, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1992.

Robin, Harry, The Scientific Image: from cave to computer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1992.

Rogers, David F., Procedural Elements for Computer Graphics, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1985.

Rogers, David F. and Adams, J.Alan, Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics, 2nd Ed., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1990.

SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.: A Publication of ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, various years.

Tufte, Edward, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1983.

Other sources of information

For additional ideas, consult OpenDX.org and the Cornell DX Repository,

If you have access to the World Wide Web, you can find the Data Explorer home page at http://www.research.ibm.com/dx.

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