Design & Visualization

Design software focuses on the digital creation or re-creation of a thing or idea. Types of design range from print media, web site, computational, 3-dimensional, structural, simulation, and more. Simulation and modeling software is closely related and sometimes integrated with design software.

Visualization software includes applications that help visualize concepts, ideas, or scenarios. This includes diagramming, geographical visualization, molecular and structure visualization, graphical data representations, and some animation.

Also included in this category are applications used in presentations. This includes not only Powerpoint and powerpoint style presentations, but live polling software, presentation capture software, and web presentations as well. As well, applications used to create, edit, convert, or touch up digital images. Software ranges from photo editing, photo cataloging, graphic design, and diagramming. Finally there are applications used to edit web pages including code editors, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editors, and Content Management (CMS) systems that organize and manage web pages on a server.

NCAR Graphics

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Design & Visualization

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Availability: Labs  |  Free Download
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NCAR Graphics is a Fortran and C based software package for scientific visualization.  NCAR Graphics is comprised of:

  • a library containing over two dozen Fortran/C utilities for drawing contours, maps, vectors, streamlines, weather maps, surfaces, histograms, X/Y plots, annotations, and more
  • an ANSI/ISO standard version of GKS, with both C and FORTRAN callable entries
  • a math library containing a collection of C and Fortran interpolators and approximators for one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional data
  • applications for displaying, editing, and manipulating graphical output
  • map databases
  • hundreds of FORTRAN and C examples
  • demo programs
  • compilation scripts
Tags: graphicstrm

Omeka

February 26, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & Visualization

omeka

Availability: Contact CLAS OAT
Comparable:  WordPress, Drupal

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.

Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack.

Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems: Tech Ecosystem

Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability.

Tags: web development

OpenOffice

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & VisualizationProductivity & Utility

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Availability: Labs | Free Download
Comparable: Microsoft Office, Google Apps

Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite.  The applications include:

  • Writer – a word processor
  • Calc – a spreadsheet program
  • Impress – a presentation program
  • Draw – a graphics program
  • Math – a formula editor
  • Base – a database management program

Apache OpenOffice is available for download here.  OpenOffice may require java for some applications.