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World's Leading Hydrodynamic Modeling Product Uses Toolmaster Software
by AVS to Present Complex Data
Sophisticated charting, graphing and presentation software
from Advanced Visual Systems, Inc. is being used by WL | Delft Hydraulics
to provide advanced visualization and print capabilities for
Delft-GPP, the visualization component of the company's Delft3D
hydrodynamic modeling package.
Delft3D is a modular software framework that represents 2D and 3D
flow, water quality, ecology, short wave propagation and
morphology, and is widely used to model coastal, river and
estuarine areas. The Delft-GPP module of Delft3D relies
on AVS' cross-platform Toolmaster™ software to provide
general post-processing, allowing users to access and selectively
visualize computational results and measured data produced
by other Delft3D modules. Users can choose between predefined
settings to expedite presentation of complex data, or modify
these settings to meet individual requirements.
Specific user capabilities within Delft-GPP include importing Delft3D
data and various external data formats; creating data sets;
selecting plot composition, layout, and presentation techniques;
viewing the presentation on-screen or as high-quality hard-copy;
generating animated video of the visualization; and exporting
to industry-standard GIS or text files.
"The post-processing has to be supported on a wide variety of platforms,
and it involves the management of data sets with complex interpretations.
WL | Delft Hydraulics chose Toolmaster based on portability, the ability to
encapsulate it in a custom-made user-interface, the range of printers and
plotters that are supported and, above all, the graphical functions that are
both low-level, such as drawing a line, and high-level, such as contouring an
arbitrary quadrangle," explained Arjen Markus, Consultant at WL | Delft Hydraulics.
"We also needed to provide a flexible layout, allowing users to combine results
with measurements, or enhance the appearance of the coastal outline - all with
just a few clicks in the user interface."
Delft3D is extensively used both in research and consultancy projects
by WL | Delft Hydraulics and by the company's customers, with about 100
user sites worldwide. The Delft3D software is available for Microsoft
Windows and NT 4.0 as well as Hewlett-Packard, Sun and SGI UNIX-based systems.
Toolmaster provides Microsoft Windows and X Windows developers with a
cross-platform library of more than 500 C/C++ and FORTRAN functions for
scientific, technical and commercial graphics. Toolmaster is the most
comprehensive toolset available for visual data analysis and presentation
under MS Windows and X Windows-based applications. Toolmaster also serves
as the basis of AVS' market-leading end-user technical charting package,
Gsharp™.
More information about Toolmaster is available here.
More information about Delft3D is available at
http://www.wldelft.nl/soft/d3d/index.html.
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