Post #2098590
2026-03-27 14:37 UTC
Needless to say, xv was one of those tools that was all about "doing the work." It wasn't flashy. It wasn't freaking Photoshop. It was effective. And it worked on my SPARCStation with 16MB of RAM.
Seriously, we used the hell out of xv in our research group. 5/n?
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@dabeaz@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 14:54
Anyways, sometime around 1992, computational power had increased to a point where we started to do a lot more of our simulation work in 3D. For example, running molecular dynamics simulations on a 250x250x250 atom cube of some material. This had nothing to do with xv, but it had a huge impact on all of the other tooling related to data visualization. Specifically, dealing with large datasets, interactive exploration, and even being able to reason about what you were looking at. 6/n?