The VisAD Tutorial

Can't get enough of VisAD? Need more documentation?

Other tutorials and examples include:

• Frank Gibbons's Jython translations of the tutorial
• Curtis Rueden's examples and little apps
• The VisAD Data Model Tutorial, which is useful for people just getting started
• The VisAD Python Tutorial, which explains an easy way to use VisAD from Python scripts
• The VisAD Collaboration Tutorial, which provides step-by-step instructions for building collaborative applications, and for converting existing applications to support collaboration (its all really quite simple)
• The VisAD DataRenderer Tutorial, which is unfinished but will explain how to write custom extensions of the DataRenderer class (these actually construct depictions of Data objects in Displays, and modify Data objects in response to direct manipulation)
• The VisAD Event Tutorial, which is useful for writing applications with complex user interfaces, multiple threads and distributed computing

Other documentation includes:

• The VisAD FAQ
• Online browse of VisAD javadoc
• Unidata's visad-list archive (or this backup)
• The VisAD README file for installation instructions
• A list of Unit names and abbreviations for use in VisAD
• The procedure for testing and releasing VisAD to the ftp server