Collage
What is Collage?
NCSA Collage combines the tools of communications software with NCSA
scientific visualization software and allows researchers to conduct
remote collaborations. Sessions can share data visualization,
electronic whiteboard capabilities, text display and editing, and
screen capture.
Features
Current features in the 1.2 Unix release includes: (All of the
following features are shared operation in a collaborative session)
- Viewing of Data
- as values in a spreadsheet, as image
- Data Analysis Operations
- color histogram generation, profile (XY plots), color contour overlay on image
- Palette Manipulation
- dynamic linear expansion and compression on palette (fiddle), dynamic color component manipulation, palette rotation
- Animations
- animation from window, animation from window, play forward or backwards, single step, animation slider bar
- Text Editing
- shared selection, shared editing, printing
- Whiteboard
- doodling on white background
- Paint Operations
- paint operations apply to image, whiteboard, text windows; free hand doodling; arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, text; screen capture
- HDF Browser Data Object Selector
- supports raster, SDS, and palette loading
- Collaborative Legend
- displays all users in the session
- Screen Capture
- capture and publish a section of you screen as a raster
How to Use
On the Unix machines type:
collage
Availability
Collage is available for the Suns and SGIs.
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