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IDL: Interactive Data Language

IDL is a commercial software for scientific data visualization. The GNU Data Language GDL is an open-source alternative.

Installation

The IDL software is available in the IT Shop.

Troubleshooting

Failure to acquire window rendering context / Unable to acquire device context

If IDL crashes with this error message when drawing using certain image routines, you may try to disable hardware rendering:

IDL> PREF_SET, 'IDL_GR_X_RENDERER', 1, /COMMIT

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