[en] We discuss our experiences with Open Inventor and with basic tools and techniques of Virtual Reality, including some preliminary results from an immersive system

[en] The Fermilab open-quotes Nirvanaclose quotes project has produced a number of tools for data analysis in High Energy Physics. The authors goal has been to produce software which takes maximum advantage of the workstation graphical user interface. Histo-Scope and NPlot enable users to browse data from running programs and HBOOK, Histo-Scope, and columnar text files. They also provide highly interactive two and three dimensional plots which can be rotated, scaled and adjusted directly with the workstation mouse. The newest program, NFit, a GUI version of the MINUIT fitting program, will be ready in a few months. In addition, NEdit, the programmer's text editor, was released as public domain in December. The authors discuss the basics of these software products, as well as improvements in the newest versions of Histo-Scope, NPlot, and NEdit

[en] We present four small, high quality, Motif based tools for high energy physicists and discuss some of the less obvious work that is necessary to fully take advantage of graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Histo-Scope and NPlot are interactive data display programs. Histo-Scope is for viewing data as it is collected in running analysis or data acquisition programs, NPlot, for plotting data from text files. Visajet is an interface for the ISAJET event simulation program. It gives users a fast way to configure ISAJET and displays ISAJET events in a three dimensional phase space display that users can rotate and manipulate with the mouse. NEdit is a GUI style plain text editor

[en] GEANT4 is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter. It includes a complete range of functionality including tracking, geometry, physics models and hits. The physics processes offered cover a comprehensive range, including electromagnetic, hadronic and optical processes, a large set of long-lived particles, materials and elements, over a wide energy range starting, in some cases, from 250 eV and extending in others to the TeV energy range. It has been designed and constructed to expose the physics models utilised, to handle complex geometries, and to enable its easy adaptation for optimal use in different sets of applications. The toolkit is the result of a worldwide collaboration of physicists and software engineers. It has been created exploiting software engineering and object-oriented technology and implemented in the C++ programming language. It has been used in applications in particle physics, nuclear physics, accelerator design, space engineering and medical physics