NAG's IRIS Explorer - Internet Resources

The following are useful links to external resources regarding IRIS Explorer and visualization.

Links to underlying technologies

IRIS Explorer is an Open Inventor based product. Open Inventor provides a de facto standard for 3-D scene definition and was the basis of the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) extension to HTML and the World Wide Web.
IRIS Explorer renders visualisations using OpenGL, the long-established standard for 3D display API.
The Mesa library, which is a GNU-licensed library for rendering OpenGL over X, is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mesa3d
Further details of the Scheme language, on which IRIS Explorer's scripting language Skm is based, can be found at the main Scheme page or via the Yahoo Scheme Index

Other visualization- related links

SIGGRAPH the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics.
Eurographics - The European Association for Computer Graphics
TCCG - The IEEE Technical Committee On Visualization and Graphics
Image Communication Information Board Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
The Visualization and Virtual Environments Community Club (VVECC).
Algorithm, Inc. 3-D and Computer Graphics Hot-list