Tamara Munzner's Pipeline Tools

alpha release 31 Oct 1996

about the toolkit: these network tools are a family of modules intended for pipeline use. a typical pipeline might look like this: converter to canonical ndt format -> geographical resolver / topological layout -> grouping and coloring filters -> geometric constructors -> 2D or 3D visualization engine
netinfo (readme, netinfo data files): database files to map DNS names to places, places to global positions, autonomous system numbers to names, and IP addresses to places
ndptools (readme, ndptools source ): a set of tools that either filter streams in ndt format or translate to and from foreign formats into ndt format, a simple optional property based ascii format for representation of network data. (mostly perl, the set of tools written by Tamara Munzner.); description of how we used above tools to generate figures for mbone paper .
geomview (barebones geomview distribution for SGI, main GC Geomview download page): 3D graphical front end for viewing ndt files. runs on SGI, generic X, and nextstep platforms. written at the Geometry Center.
daily(readme, daily source): automatic generation of 3D data & images as in http://ircache.nlanr.net/Cache/daily.html
globes (hires.oogl, lores.oogl, hires.wrl, lores.wrl, all): high (~1.5MB) and low (~.15MB) resolution globes, in both OOGL and VRML formats. by Stuart Levy of the Geometry Center, using the CIA world map database.
sample datasets (mbone tunnel data): a few sample datasets for use with the toolkit: the tunnel structure of the mbone on 2/12/96, 6/15/96, and 7/30/96. downloaded from the former mwatch website (now defunct) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/mbone/#Mrouted. also includes map.special, some auxilliary tunnel structure data that won't be in the dataset collated by mwatch.
anemone (readme, anemone source code): 2D X graphical front end for viewing ndt files.
ndtools (readme, ndtools source ): a set of tools that either filter streams in ntformat or translate to and from foreign formats into ndt format, a simple optional property based ascii format for representation of network data. (mostly C, the set of tools written by Eric Hoffman.)
mapper (readme, mapper source): approximation of path delay characteristics, used in conjunction with ndtools and anemone for end-to-end visualization at AllsWell/.
gem (readme, ndtools source ): a graph placement program written at the University of Karlsruhe under the direction of Arne Frick. Although the code itself is unattributed, it seems to have been written by an Andreas Ludwig. the entire distribution is available here. the only change made was to preserve node tags so that they could be correlated with the original nodes.
alltools.tar.gz: all toolkit modules in a single package, for convenience