Post #2098586
2026-03-27 14:24 UTC
xv was an integral part of day-to-day research activities. Basically, all we did all day was solve differential equations. This involved a ton of simulation, plotting, data analysis, and visualization.
xv was this really modest tool that did one thing really well--make it easy to look at images. You could browse images, adjust color maps, flip between images, and so forth.
If you walked by a colleague's workstation on any given day, you'd see like 20 instances of xv running at once. 2/n?
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@dabeaz@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 14:28
I'd recall days where a group of us would be huddled over some workstation flipping between images in xv. Somebody might even hold a ruler up to the monitor to measure distances between features of two images as we flipped back and forth. Of course, there was the problem of finding "that image" from last month. Is it in the "old2" directory or the "new3" directory? Or the "new_old2" directory. Ah hell. So, you'd fire up xv to go searching around for it. 3/n?
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@uriel@x.keinpfusch.net 2026-03-28 12:31
@dabeaz why no gnuplot running on the dataset? (just a curiosity , not arguing)