Further work

Map Editor

• Connecting parameters, and modifying them via the Parameter Function editor
• Changing map's user interface via grouping modules
• Distributing a map across a network of machines
• The IRIS Explorer scripting language - an alternative to the Map Editor

Building modules

• to read and convert data using the DataScribe
• without a compiler using the Shape scripting language
• from source (C, C++, Fortran) using the module builder
• The IRIS Explorer Application Programmer's Interface
• Advanced module building:- loop controllers, communication with external processes & events, using X widgets...

Building datatypes using the Explorer Typing Language

IRIS Explorer and Open Inventor

• Combining Inventor scenes with geometry created in IRIS Explorer
• Using Inventor within a module to edit geometry
• Custom rendering, picking, searching of Inventor scenes
• Using IRIS Explorer as a VRML authoring tool