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InfoVis CyberInfrastructure This web site provides access to a comprehehsive set of software packages easing the exploration, modification, comparison, and extension of data mining and information visualization algorithms.
The InfoVis Toolkit The InfoVis Toolkit is a Interactive Graphics Toolkit written in Java to ease the development of Information Visualization applications and components.
processing Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities.
VisAD VisAD is a Java component library for interactive and collaborative visualization and analysis of numerical data. The name VisAD is an acronym for "Visualization for Algorithm Development"
Improvise Improvise is an information visualization system in which users build and browse multiview visualizations interactively using a simple shared-object coordination mechanism coupled with a flexible, expression-based visual abstraction language.

JFreeChart JFreeChart is a free Java class library for generating charts.
JOpenChart Free Java Toolkit and library for embedding charts into different kinds of applications.
Chart2D Java programming library for visualizing quantitative data using two-dimensional charts.
JSynoptic renders information graphically. It can be used as a simple graph plotter, or as a complex run-time monitoring environment.

prefuse: an interactive visualization toolkit prefuse is a user interface toolkit for building highly interactive visualizations of structured and unstructured data. This includes any form of data that can be represented as a set of entities (or nodes) possibly connected by any number of relations (or edges).
GINY Graph INterface librarY Java Graphing Libraries.
JUNG - Java Universal Network/Graph Framework a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of data that can be represented as a graph or network.
Wilmascope 3D graph visualisation system a Java3D application which creates real time 3d animations of dynamic graph structures.
Touchgraph TouchGraph provides a hands-on way to visualize networks of interrelated information. Networks are rendered as interactive graphs, which lend themselves to a variety of transformations.
GVF - The Graph Visualization Framework The Graph Visualization Framework is a set of Java 2 packages that can serve as a foundation for applications that either manipulate graph structures or visualize them.
JGraph Open Source Java Graph Visualization.

VTK Home Page The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization.
Hydra3D Hydra3D is a 3-dimensional XML visualization and editing tool for UNIX variants and Windows.

GeoVISTA Studio Project GeoVISTA Studio is an open software development environment designed for geospatial data.

Zomit: A Zoomable User Interface Zomit is a generic package for developing zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs) that can aid in navigating large information spaces.
Piccolo Piccolo (formerly Jazz) is an open-source Java 2 toolkit from HCIL that supports the development of 2D structured graphics programs in general, and Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) in particular.