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Introduction

A distinction has developed within AIPS++ between ``Infrastructure Graphics'' and ``Advanced Visualization''. The Visualization work takes place at BIMA/UIUC, and is characterized by its use of high-end computer graphics hardware and software, by its arm's length relationship to AIPS++ libraries and classes, and by a focus upon new and novel display techniques for radio astronomy data. The infrastructure graphics, on the other hand, is fully integrated with the AIPS++ libraries and classes; it make almost no assumptions about computer hardware or special-purpose graphics libraries; and it is to be used for a wide variety of display tasks, from the mundane (simple x-y plots) to the demanding (a movie of a spectral cube, volume rendering). This short paper discusses AIPS++ Infrastructrure Graphics. The discussion consists of four sections:

A short technical summary
A presentation of the design principles and goals
A description of several pieces of freely available graphics software which we have adopted which have allowed us to make considerable progress in a short time
An example that shows the system in action

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