Software and Tools for Graphics and Visualization

Overview	The Scientific Computing and Visualization group offers software packages for plotting, scientific visualization, modeling, rendering, animation, graphics programming, and image manipulation.
Available To	Students, Faculty, Researchers, External Research Collaborators, Industrial Partners
Benefits	Visualization tools are provided within the same overall environment as our computation facilities, so data may be brought into visualization packages without copying. Large disks are available. Unix/Linux commands and scripts may run computation and visualization tasks in a unified manner. These software packages are supported by SCV consulting and training.
Key Features	Full “pipeline” of graphics tools for visualization Plotting packages Scientific visualization tools accessible via GUI, scripting, or programming Professional-grade modeling, animation, and rendering packages Image manipulation tools Graphics programming libraries Provision and configuration of software packages on our machines
Requirements	Those interested in using visualization software on our machines should generally be on a Scientific Computing Facilities (SCF) research project.
Cost	No charge to the BU community. There is a charge to industrial partners.
Getting Started	Learn more about our software packages.