※Product Overview※

AVS Express

AVS/Express is a comprehensive and versatile data visualization tool for both non-programmers and experienced developers. Rapid data analysis and rich visualization techniques combined with an intuitive, graphical application development environment make AVS/Express the best choice for any data visualization task.

AVS/Express provides powerful visualization methods for challenging problems in a vast range of fields, including science, business, engineering, medicine, telecommunications and environmental research.

Editions

Visualization Edition

If you’re an end-user working with complex data or a researcher that needs to create rich visual presentations of your findings, you’ll find AVS/Express Visualization Edition the ideal tool for helping you to quickly and easily achieve your goals.

Fast user-friendly visualizations

AVS/Express Visualization Edition contains robust functionality for data visualization and analysis, image processing and data display. The underlying graphics display system has been designed to handle the most data intensive, interactive graphics applications.

AVS/Express Visualization Edition includes a broad range of visualization and advanced graphics techniques, the ability to encapsulate external code (C/C++, Fortran), full user control over all aspects of the visualization scene, and powerful data handling and manipulation capabilities for complex data domains.

AVS offers an attractive upgrade path from the Visualization Edition to the Developer Edition and Multipipe Edition, both of which offer increased functionality and application distribution capabilities.

For all types of analysis

 • Easy to render complex scenes: Supports integrated rendering and annotation of images, 2D and 3D objects.
 • Take maximum advantage of hardware power: Use any native graphics hardware acceleration or software renderer for transparency, anti-aliasing, texture mapping and more.
 • Manage memory better: Direct rendering of data without producing intermediate geometry.
 • Faster graphics: Accelerated cache mode for static and dynamic objects.
 • Specialized modules: Complete library for data import and manipulation, database interaction, UI construction, and more functions.

Powerful, flexible, scalable

 • Cross-platform support for Windows, Linux (x86, x86_64 and IA64), Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX and Alpha Tru64.
 • Rapid migration to current and future AVS/Express products, including Developer, Multipipe, 64-bit, Parallel Processor and other products.
 • Support on 64-bit platforms for arrays over 2 giga-elements.
 • Output to Vector Postscript, VRML, movie creation and other image formats.

Developer Edition

AVS/Express Developer Edition is the tool of choice for software developers with complex visualization challenges that require rapid solutions and/or standalone runtime distribution.

The ultimate visualization toolkit

AVS/Express Developer Edition offers cross-platform visualization and application deployment (without recompiling or changes to application code) on Windows, Linux (x86, x86_64 and IA64), Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX and Alpha Tru64.

Reconfigure any aspect of more than 850 fine-grain modules, including all those available with the AVS/Express Visualization Edition or the AVS/Express Multipipe Edition.

Using the AVS/Express Network Editor or program-callable API, automatically generate C++ class interfaces or standalone application that unleash analysis power for all types of users–from all types of data.

For all types of analysis

 • Easy to render complex scenes: Supports integrated rendering and annotation of images, 2D and 3D objects.
 • Take maximum advantage of hardware power: Use any native graphics hardware acceleration or software renderer for transparency, anti-aliasing, texture mapping and more.
 • Manage memory better: Direct rendering of data without producing intermediate geometry.
 • Faster graphics: Accelerated cache mode for static and dynamic objects.
 • Specialized modules: Complete library for data import and manipulation, database interaction, UI construction, and more functions.

Powerful, flexible, scalable

 • Rich modules for graphics display, advanced data visualization tasks, image processing, GIS import and manipulation, database interaction, and UI construction.
 • Scales to large data and complex systems; permits more than 500,000 modules in one application.
 • Illuminated lines visualization technique (combine stream lines, particle animation and advanced texture display) produces visualizations with full 3D lighting, motion and flow structure.
 • Two-pass transparency for fantastic visual quality. Off-screen rendering for windowless batch operation under UNIX.

Multipipe Edition

AVS/Express Multiple Edition is a powerhouse package that extends the functionality of AVS/Express Developer Edition with 3D stereo immersion.

Life sized data visualization

AVS/Express Multipipe Edition offers the most comprehensive suite of data visualization and analysis capabilities available today in multipipe or multi-channel display environment. Multiple Edition software is flexible and easy to use, providing a wide range of visualization tools and services for immersive or virtual reality (VR) systems.

Packaged as a high-level toolkit, Multiple Edition allows rapid construction and tuning of immersive applications, without involving a detailed understanding of the low-level multi-channel graphics programming. By selecting from a large library of modules, the most appropriate technique can be used during an interactive exploration session.

Designed for all types of analysis

 • Uses industry standard CAVELib API
 • Runs in nearly all immersive display systems
 • Viewer-centered perspective and six degrees-of-freedom
 • Configurable for multiple pipes and/or multiple channels
 • Optional head tracking and wand support
 • Supports single PC or graphics cluster
 • Active and passive stereo support
 • Supports quad-buffering
 • Stereo rendering support
 • Easy migration from standard AVS/Express
 • AVS/Express Multiple Edition is developed in concert with KGT and the University of Manchester.

Multiplatform

 • Runs on SGI® Onyx® and Prism® multipipe systems, HP-SVA Visualization Clusters and high performance clustered PCs running either Windows® Linux®9. All the above platforms provide support for display via multiple projectors, large screens or smaller immersive desk stereo systems.
 • AVS/Express applications take full advantage of Multiple Edition and become compatible with panoramic theaters, caves or immersive bench systems, as well as stereo display with dynamic head-motion tracking and 6 degree-of-freedom wand control.
 • As a true development environment, stand-alone multipipe applications can be created for distribution.

Parallel Edition

AVS/Express Parallel Edition harnesses the power of multi-processor and networked computers for high-performance tasks.

Parallel visualization power

The AVS/Express Parallel Edition provides a framework for parallel computation on multi-processor and networked computers. The computation is distributed across shared memory or clustered processor architectures using MPICH for Windows and Linux and via MPI on SGI systems.

Parallel Edition modules can co-exist with AVS/Express network modules, allowing existing applications to progressively utilize the results of the evolving Parallel Edition development program.

Designed for all types of analysis

 • AVS/Express users who require high performance desktop processing.
 • AVS/Express Multipipe Editions users who require parallel computation performance to enhance their immersive environment applications.
 • Grid users who would benefit from a distributed parallel computational and rendering environment available across the Grid.
 • Corporate and institutional application developers using AVS/Express as the basis for advanced applications that wish to create a customized and proprietary modules that leverage the power of Parallel Edition distributed processing.
 • AVS/Express Parallel Edition is productized using PST developed by JAEA.

Workstation and PC Versions

 • Runs on SGI® Onyx2® and Prism® multipipe systems, HP-SVA Visualization Clusters and high performance clustered PCs running either Windows® or Linux.
 • AVS/Express Parallel Edition augments AVS/Express Multipipe Edition and becomes compatible with panoramic theaters, caves or immersive bench systems, as well as stereo displays with dynamic head-motion tracking and 6 degree-of-freedom wand control.

Brief History

Since its first release in 1995, AVS/Express has been selected by thousands of corporations, solution providers, academic institutions and government agencies to provide powerful insight to nearly one million end-users in an array of industries.

Fast, Powerful, Flexible, Scalable

 • Develop and deploy on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Sun, HP, SGI and Alpha systems.
 • Object-oriented visual editor for quickly creating powerful visualizations and applications.
 • More than 850 visualization objects with full 3D lighting, motion and flow structures.
 • Support on 64-bit platforms–scales to very large data and very complex systems.