Visualization Readers’ Choice Award Winner: IDL
IDL, the Interactive Data Language, is software for visualization (specifically large and complex datasets), data analysis and cross-platform application development. Users can create powerful visualizations, including simple 2-D plots and image displays, interactive 3-D graphics that take advantage of OpenGL hardware acceleration and volume displays that use multiple processors for rapid rendering. Features include a library of built-in image processing, math, statistics and analysis routines; an array-oriented interpreted language; support for all data formats, types and sizes; and a choice of two different graphics subsystems depending on need — Direct Graphics and Object Graphics.
