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Lee Elson <elson at magus.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:37C2CE8E.E42A6EDD at magus.jpl.nasa.gov...
> Dear Colleague:
>
> We have made available the first full release of our free Java-based
> science visualization and analysis package, WebWinds.
> To download a copy of this release, go to http://webwinds.jpl.nasa.gov.
> Key features of this package include:
>
> * Cross platform capability: Windows (95/98/NT), Mac, Unix/Linux.
>
> * The ability to present and manipulate 2 and 3 dimensional data in
>   a variety of 1 and 2 dimensional display tools.
>
> * The ability to subset and subsample data on input or display output,
>   making it possible to handle very large data sets.
>
> * Simultaneous display and analysis of multiple data sets which may be
>   unrelated.
>
> * Interactive data, image and color manipulation.
>
> * The ability to act as a Web browser helper application, making it
> possible to
>   survey scientific data archives in interactive mode.
>
> * A scripting language which allows session configuration, re-run
>   and real-time network collaboration, automatically.
>
> * A context sensitive help system.
>
> * Complete documentation including examples.
>
>
> This version has several new features:
>
> 1) Modified or original data may be saved in several formats including
> FITS and NetCDF.
>
> 2) Most types of files may be stacked together (concatenated) to produce
> a larger file.
> This allows, for example, daily maps of a quantity to be combined to
> produce a file
> which can be animated. Subfiles within a file can also be concatenated
> in some cases.
>
> 3) HDF files can be displayed using included geolocation information.
>
> 4) A new Overlay tool allows tabular (ASCII) data to be superimposed on
> an Image.
> These overlays can show variations in symbol size, color and range and
> thus
> represent the numerical value of the tabular data.
>
> 5) Shortcuts can be generated automatically with macros.
>
> 6) A new Pause tool allows the temporary delay of the execution of a
> script,
> allowing, e.g., the dynamic selection of a file.
>
> 7) Separate, complete installation packages for PC, Mac, Sun, SGI and
> Linux systems. This
> enables 'one stop' shopping and simple installation.
>
> 8) WebWinds is compatible with Java 2 (JDK 1.2).
>
> 9) The ability to display several types of coordinate projections for
> some types of data.
>
> 10) An enhanced capability to read in different data types.
>
>