vismatrix

vismatrix is a command line tool for visualizing sparse matrices. It uses OpenGL for efficient rendering of extremely large sparse matrices.

Written by David Gleich, Leonid Zhukov, and Matt Rasmussen.

News

2006-11-22: Version 1.01 released. This is the initial public release.

Getting vismatrix (Latest Version: 1.01)

Follow the download link at the right.

To install vismatrix, just unzip the file.

To test vismatrix, try the command: 

> vismatrix.exe wb-cs.stanford.smat -rcl wb-cs.stanford.urls
at the command line. You should see a new window with the sparse matrix displayed. Try pressing the keyboard key "s" and then moving the mouse while holding "Ctrl" to move the onscreen cursor.

If the above steps do not work, please send me an email with any error messages you get and your system configuration.

Documentation

See the usage and formats links to the right.

Problems

Do you have a problem with vismatrix  Are you getting an error?  Please send me a .smat file with your matrix and a list of commands to reproduce the error. 

Send both of these to the address mithandor+vismatrix@gmail.com.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Amy Langville and others for testing initial versions of this code and giving us the encouragement for a public release.