FLOW(1D) — Silicon Graphics

NAME

flow − display of complex scientific data base

SYNOPSIS

/usr/people/demos/flow

DESCRIPTION

Flow displays about 20,000 data points and a few vectors. The data is a three-dimensional display of the values of the Navier-Stokes equations for turbulent fluid flow in a channel. The calculation was done at NASA-Ames on, of all things, the Illiac-IV.

Simple mouse motions control the display. Press the left mouse button, move the cursor, and release the button to redraw the image with new altitude and azimuth. Use the middle mouse button to control distance and twist. The right mouse button starts a sequence of 100 short twists. Any keyboard key switches the display from single-buffer mode (the initial state) to double-buffer mode or back.

AUTHOR

Phil Gustafson

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Eight bitplanes and 2.5 Megabytes of memory are required to run flow.