OGLE Large-Scale Scientific Data Visualizer

Ogle rapidly renders extremely large volumetric data sets, with a strong emphasis on very fast opacity rendering (i.e. direct volume rendering or voxel rendering) combined with surface geometry rendering, portability, code simplicity, usability, and making animations semi-automatically. Ogle will eventually include remote rendering facilities suitable for use at sites with strong security, e.g. DoD HPC sites.

• Able to handle extremely large volumetric data sets
• Interactive for exploration or scripted for semi-automated animations
• Combines direct volume rendering with surface geometry rendering
• Uses clean, portable, open source code
• Free
• Simple; easy to learn and use; does not require a sci-vis team to use
• Reliable
• In use daily!

Ogle does not compete with other visualization packages; Ogle fills a niche left in the gaps between other packages.

• Author changed jobs.

2002 March: New ogleSeries script.

• Moves images to subdirectory.
• Image names based on script name.

2001 Nov 06: New release of Ogle. New features include these:

• Easier to use under MS Windows.
• Code refactoring to make way for upcoming improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

• Remote operation:
  • Remote collaboration facilities
  • Secure network protocols
• Control scheme refactorizations:
  • Better script format
  • Command-line unified with scripting
  • Improved GUI model-view-controller scheme
• Dataview refactoring to broaden support:
  • Particle rendering
  • Model geometry rendering
  • Streamribbons
  • Run-time plug-in framework, e.g., for feature extraction
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