Hard copy and reproducibility

An essential part of a researcher's job is to be able to communicate their work to others. This communication can take the form of a conversation, a presentation, and/or a paper. The last require the ability to output our 3-D environment to another media. The VTK library allows several different output options. The display can be written out in postscript, tiff, cgm, bmp, and vrml. Upon a successful exit, the final view is written to the file set by the o command line parameter. The type of output is defined by the of parameter.

Another essential component or research is the ability to reproduce results. This extends from the initial raw data to the final outputed image. SEP has always stressed the importance of reproducibility Schwab et al. (1996). We have incorporated this idea into VtkCubeplot. VtkCubeplot can output its current display parameters to ScenarioOut. It can take as input a set of display parameters (ScenarioIn) and operate in batch mode to reproduce a figure.