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Glyphs are visual symbols used to convey information based on appearance or position. Simple glyphs include bars on a bar chart and dots on a statistical plot. The Glyph Toolbox is a set of three-dimensional glyphs both complex and intuitive enough to convey information to a wide audience, while maintaining a simple system for generating glyphs based on existing data.


The purpose of the Glyph Toolbox Project is to build a collection of tools, i.e. individual UNIX style command line programs, that can be used to build a polygon based virtual environment or used as glyphs for data representation. The tools (command and filters) output an ASCII based file that is machine and rendering independent. The actual display of the ASCII files is handled by converting the output polygon file into a format suitable for display by a viewing program, such as DIVERSE/diversifly, VRML, Open Inventor, etc.


The Glyph Toolbox consists of a set of functions: .

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Simple glyph constructor functions to construct a series of platonic solids.

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A set of functions for extrusion and rotation.

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A set of more complex functions to create recognizable objects, such as birds, fish, and faces.

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A set of manipulation functions which take an existing GTB file and scale, translate, rotate, and color the objects contained in the file.


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Immersive VR Datamining



Glyph Toolbox logo.
Glyph Toolbox logo.
The Monk Problem
The Monk Problem
A Glyph World
A Glyph World

(bullet) Papers/Presentations
(bullet) Harry W. Bullen IV, Jessica S. Chang, Alexander V. Harn, Sean P. Kelly, Steven G. Satterfield, Peter M. Ketcham and Judith E. Devaney, A Glyph Toolbox for Immersive Scientific Visualization , October 30, 2002. Available as NISTIR 6924.
Links:  postscript and pdf.

(bullet) Project Leader : Steven G. Satterfield, NIST
(bullet) Project Contact : Steven G. Satterfield
(bullet) Glyph Toolbox team : Students: Harry W. Bullen, IV, Jessica S. Chang, Alexander V. Harn, Sean P. Kelly; Steven G. Satterfield, NIST; Judith E. Devaney, NIST; Peter M. Ketcham, NIST; John G. Hagedorn, NIST; Adele P. Peskin, NIST
(bullet) Group Leader : Judith E. Terrill


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Date created: 2002-02-07, Last updated: 2011-01-12.
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