AVS and AVS/Express
JEAN M. FAVRE and MARIO VALLE, Swiss National Supercomputing Center
33.1 Introduction
The introduction of the Application Visualization System (AVS) in 1989 marked a milestone in the visualization environment scene [1]. The computer industry had seen, at the end of the 1980s, the release of a class of hardware called “graphics superworkstations,” while on the algorithmic side, the series of IEEE Visualization conferences had just started, bringing to light numerous visualization techniques and models. There remained, however, a large gap between the 3D graphics power and the software tools available. Graphics libraries available then (PHIGS+, GL, GKS, etc.) were too low-level and required a large programming investment ...
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