Evolution of Visualisation Tools Evolution of Visualisation Tools Visualisation tools have passed through several distinct stages of evolution. This has mirrored both the advancing hardware capabilities and the emerging software technologies, in particular Object-Oriented Programming concepts. In fact, many modern packages bear this legacy in retaining a low level text interface purely for supporting shell scripts in a batch environment.
Examples are the Stardent graphics packages and early vector graphics tools.
The sequence of operations is formulated as a network of nodes connected by communications arcs. These packages offer significantly increased capabilities and greater user interaction. Last modified December 13 1996.