IBM OpenDX

IBM OpenDX

OpenDX stands for Open Data Explorer and is IBM's scientific data visualization software. It can handle complex domains (as the mechanical gear or a human brain) along with measured or computed data. The data may be scalar (such as the concentration of a chemical agent in the brain), vector or tensor fields (like the displacement or strain tensor fields when the gear is in action) at different points of the object. The points at which data is measured don't have to be equally spaced, and not need to be homogeneously spaced. The project started in 1991 as Visualization Data Explorer.

OpenDX can do 3D visualizations and represent the measured quantities color or gray scale coded, or as vectors, streamlines and ribbons. It can make cuts in the object to have a view of the inside, and then represent the data on this cutting plane as a height coded graph. It can rotate the object to have a view of the data from any angle, and make animations of these movements.