AVS

Description

AVS (Advanced Visual Systems) provides a suite of products suitable for visualization of engineering datasets, including the complex data found in earthquake engineering applications. AVS's products include:

AVS/Express, which includes visualization and programming capabilities, so that this tool can be used both to render the complex 3D time-dependent data found in earthquake engineering applications, but also to develop custom visualization and data exploration tools using an embedded programming environment intended for rapid-application development (RAD) processes.
AVS5, an application which provides easy-to-use visualization capabilities suitable for 2D and 3D rendering of earthquake engineering datasets, and for display/integration of 2D and 3D images.
A public repository of modules that extend the capabilities of AVS's products to permit development and deployment of custom community solutions for common visualization problems. This repository is maintained by the International AVS Centre (IAC).

AVS products are supported directly by AVS, but also via the Usenet newsgroup comp.graphics.avs

Features

AVS products have an extensive feature set, including the all-important ability to rended complex transient finite-element datasets, to juxtapose computational and experimental data, to render using available hardware (e.g., special SGI-specific hardware visualization support is available), and to extend the application to support novel new visualization settings.

Pricing and Software Metrics

Supported platforms include all major Unix platforms, as well as NT-based Windows desktop microcomputers.
Software quality is of the Commercial grade
Educational pricing is available on many AVS products (for non-profit use)