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Spinoff story
A Virtual World of Visualization
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
In 1990, Sterling Software, Inc., developed the Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST) for NASA Ames on contract. FAST is a workstation-based modular analysis and visualization tool. It is used to visualize and animate grids and grid-oriented data, typically generated by finite-difference, finite element and other analytical methods. FAST is now available through COSMIC, NASA's software storehouse.