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A proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation for financial support for a three year period for developing an interactive interface to the NCAR graphics utilities. This proposal was never funded.

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A proposal submitted to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for funding of an interactive interface for NCAR Graphics in response to a solicitation from NASA. This proposal reached the negotiating stage, but was never funded.

Scope and Contents A letter from Roy Mendelssohn, dated April 20, 1992, describing his Macintosh specific implementation of NCAR Graphics which he was willing to distribute for no compensation. He was granted permission to do this, since there was no in-house version for the Macintosh at that time. This distribution was superseded by the official SCD UNIX distribution when Apple moved to UNIX in 2002.Notes from a Scientific Visualization Group Planning Retreat in 1993. Main action items were: ...

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In 1978 SCD director Stu Patterson formed a five member committee to review the software needs of the division. This report, dated June 12, 1978, presents in extensive detail the findings of the committee.

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A committee was formed on November 21, 1975, to develop a specification for a front-end computing system to handle the batch machines peripherals and all communication with users. The report is dated March 10, 1976, and current and proposed configurations are presented.

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Communication with Steve Orszag, dated April 15, 1976, concerning data transfer to M.I.T. Interim report, dated May 3, 1976, on data communications. Memo on future modes of remote access to NCAR facilities, dated April 30, 1976.

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This report, dated December 18, 1987, summarizes the results from an eight member committee tasked with recommending hardware to relieve the saturation of the SCD film recorders and printers (Phase I), and hardware/software to extend the capabilities of NCAR Graphics (Phase II). The conclusions of the Phase I report centered around improving the DICOMED film output (add color, fiche, new control computer) and the XEROX printers.

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A report discussing the issues involved with the massive effort to document the 3.2 Version of NCAR Graphics. Many criticisms were addressed with the goal of guidance for future work.

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 1994, SCD contracted with the independent Nomad Software Consultants to prepare a market analysis of NCAR Graphics. Among other things, the report contains a market overview of scientific visualization, what the strengths and weaknesses of NCAR Graphics are in that arena, who the competition is, and potential marketing strategies. For a private company that was not familiar with NCAR Graphics, this report was deemed to be informed and valuable, offering as it did an outsider's views.