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.
Press here to return to the User's Guide Menu.