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.

Origin Pro

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & Visualization
Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable: Excel

Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It has inspired several platform-independent open-source clones like QtiPlot or SciDAVis.

Graphing support in Origin includes various 2D/3D plot types.  Data analyses in Origin include statistics, signal processing, curve fitting and peak analysis. Origin’s curve fitting is performed by the nonlinear least squares fitter which is based on the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm.

Origin is primarily a GUI (Graphical User Interface) software with a spreadsheet front end. Unlike popular spreadsheets like Excel, Origin’s worksheet is column oriented. Each column has associated attributes like name, units and other user definable labels. Instead of cell formula, Origin uses column formula for calculations.

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ParticleFlow

December 19, 2013 by clas-web
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & Visualization
Availability: Labs  |  Download
Comparable:

ParticleFlow is a two dimensional modeling software. This software, along with TopoDrive, are meant to simulate two groundwater processes: topography-driven flow and transport of fluid particles. It helps the user to better understand and determine groundwater flow processes.

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Photos

December 02, 2015 by Laurie Parker
Categories: Design & VisualizationMultimedia

PhotosAvailability: Included as a bundled app in OSX Yosemite v10.10.3 and later.
Comparable:  Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom, Picasa

Photos is a photo editing and management computer program developed by Apple Inc. for the OS X operating system. This application replaces the discontinued products Aperture and iPhoto. In April 2015, Photos was released as a bundled app to OS X Yosemite users in OS X 10.10.3.

Features of Photos include powerful image editing tools that are considered more robust than those previously available in iPhoto. Users can access their Mac photo and video library from all their devices through the iCloud Photo Library. Photos can be organized by Moments, Collections, and Years. Users can also share their photos on Facebook, Twitter, iCloud Photo Sharing, and AirDrop.

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