IDL iTools

IDL's iTools™, provide a powerful and flexible set of interactive utilities for any IDL user. As an IDL novice or casual user, you can quickly and easily open, analyze and visualize your data and produce stunning, publication-quality graphics. If you are an experienced IDL programmer, the pre-built tools reduce your programming effort and integrate seamlessly with the IDL Command Line, user interface controls, and custom algorithms. In addition, you can use the iTools framework to build completely customized visualization environments.

The iTools are made up of five pre-built tools:

• iPlot provides 2D and 3D graphing
• iSurface allows for surface representations of 2D array data and irregularly sampled point collections
• iContour enables the production and anipulation of contour plots
• iImage provides image display, exploration, ROI definition and basic processing
• iVolume is used for the rendering and dissection of volumetric data
• iMap allows you to work with geolocated data
• iVector displays 2D vector flow fields

Powerful - iTools have the right set of features out of the box, so you don't need to reinvent the wheel every time you want to apply an interactive task on your data.

Flexible - In addition to visualizing your data, iTools allow you to use built-in analysis options to probe your data and understand it better.

Extendible - iTools are built upon a component framework that can be extended to create customized methods for visualizing data, GUI controls and new ways of interacting with the display.

Adaptable - iTools are truly intelligent and will adapt to handle new data. Go ahead - stretch the limits with complex visualizations that combine different kinds of data.

Open Architecture - All of the source code is provided so you can get into the guts of iTools and see what's happening to your data every step of the way.

With iTools, IDL has once again delivered a significant advance in software technology for data visualization and analysis.