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We describe our exploratory visualization environment, the interactive Inventor Shell (iIsh), and the fact that no single programming paradigm underlies it. IIsh is an environment for interactive exploration of large databases of multidimensional abstract data, an application known as Information Visualization. This environment has been used in a number of areas but is still evolving — this flexibility is a key feature. IIsh is built around the Tcl scripting language and the Inventor1 three-dimensional graphics toolkit, and simplifies the creation of interactive three-dimensional visualizations of abstract data A particular feature of iIsh is that the interaction behavior of the system can be easily modified at run-time. We have used iIsh to construct a variety of visualization applications in fields ranging from computer architecture to medical insurance, and we describe our experience.
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Blake, E.H., Goosen, H.A. (1995). The “No-Paradigm” Programming Paradigm for Information Visualization. In: Veltkamp, R.C., Blake, E.H. (eds) Programming Paradigms in Graphics. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9457-7_9
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