Open AccessTomoeye: A Matlab package for visualization of three‐dimensional tomographic models
Author(s) -
Gorbatov A.,
Limaye A.,
Sambridge M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.928
H-Index - 136
ISSN - 1525-2027
DOI - 10.1029/2003gc000653
Subject(s) - visualization , vrml , computer science , matlab , software , tomographic reconstruction , computer graphics (images) , tomography , set (abstract data type) , data mining , artificial intelligence , iterative reconstruction , virtual reality , programming language , physics , optics
The use of seismic imaging techniques is widespread. Numerous three‐dimensional (3‐D) tomographic models have been presented over the last 30 years and subsequently analyzed by a wider community of seismologists, geodynamicists, mineral physicists, and geochemists. However, platform‐independent, open source, user‐friendly software for interactive exploration of tomographic models does not exist. Here, we present a package for interactive visualization, analysis, and presentation of tomographic models. Using a set of four Matlab programs, multiscale tomographic models can be explored in Cartesian or spherical coordinate systems; data subsets can be extracted and combined; publication‐quality figures can be produced; and Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) models can be produced for 3‐D visualization and publication on the World Wide Web. This type of freely available software package will encourage the distribution of tomographic models in a standardized form for independent peer review by the research community.