Final visualizations can be saved as raster files in one of several formats. The user may write his or her own modules. Either of these solutions takes a significant amount of time and effort to accomplish. Explorer is a powerful, flexible, extensible system. Getting data into explorer can take more time and effort than a user might reasonably expect.
Graphic quality is very good but the annotation capability is poor.
Availability and Setup Iris Explorer is only available on SGI machines and must be run from an SGI console since it utilizes the graphics hardware available only on SGIs. See the machines list below for a full list of the machines Explorer is available on. The presently installed version is 3.0 . Go to the SGI console you wish to run Explorer on and log in. Using Explorer Iris Explorer's user interface is based on 'visual programming', in which the user constructs 'dataflow maps'.