VisAD ===== The `VisAD `_ visualization toolkit is a Java component library for interactive and collaborative visualization and analysis of numerical data. VisAD uses Bio-Formats to read many image formats, notably TIFF. Installation ------------ The **visad.jar** file has Bio-Formats bundled inside, so no further installation is necessary. Upgrading --------- It should be possible to use a newer version of Bio-Formats by putting the latest :downloads:`bioformats_package.jar ` or :downloads:`formats-gpl.jar ` before **visad.jar** in the class path. Alternately, you can create a "VisAD Lite" using the ``make lite`` command from VisAD source, and use the resultant **visad-lite.jar**, which is a stripped down version of VisAD without sample applications or Bio-Formats bundled in.