Box 3

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Only manuals that are not found in the NCAR Library collection are included in the NCAR Graphics Records.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Using computers to produce images as visual aids in understanding complex data has played an important role in atmospheric research since the early 1960s. Under different organizational structures since 1964, software developed within a single project at NCAR has undergone an unbroken evolution in making significant contributions in the area of computer graphics tailored to research in the atmospheric sciences. This collection documents that evolution. The materials not only...

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In the late 1980s and the early 1990s the NCAR Graphics Group, in collaboration with the University of Colorado Department of Computer Science, sponsored what the CU department called a Senior Project Course. These projects consisted of a small team of senior computer science majors working with members of the SCD Graphics Group on a substantial real world project.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Using computers to produce images as visual aids in understanding complex data has played an important role in atmospheric research since the early 1960s. Under different organizational structures since 1964, software developed within a single project at NCAR has undergone an unbroken evolution in making significant contributions in the area of computer graphics tailored to research in the atmospheric sciences. This collection documents that evolution. The materials not only...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Only manuals that are not found in the NCAR Library collection are included in the NCAR Graphics Records.

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This folder contains the document, "FITPACK: A Software Package for Curve and Surface Fitting Employing Splines Under Tension," Version 1.0, September 1987. This package was written by Alan Cline who ultimately expanded the package for commercial sale after he left NCAR. However, we were allowed to include the parts of the package Alan developed while at NCAR and then, years later, Alan gave us permission to include the entire package in our distribution.

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Only manuals that are not found in the NCAR Library collection are included in the NCAR Graphics Records.

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A quick reference brochure for accessing NCAR's Mass Storage System (MSS).

Scope and Contents An interactive interface to NCAR Graphics was a long-standing request throughout the 1980s. Providing point-and-click modification of plots was beyond what the staff could develop, but developing an interpreted interface that would allow for interactive specification of plots (as well as a programmatic interface) was embarked upon in the early 1990s. The document in this folder, dated April 4, 1992, documented a functional specification for such a product. This was to become the basis...

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Functions for editing, merging, and splitting the Standard Computer Graphics Metafiles (CGM) produced by NCAR Graphics.