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I've been searching the web for the last several days looking for a tool to interactively analyze data in 3d. Some 2d apps that fit this bill are http://www.cytoscape.org/, http://www.paterva.com/maltego/screenshots/, & http://prefuse.org/. I'm really impressed with what Celestia can do and I haven't seen much like it. It looks like it could handle a large data set for association analysis. Has anyone done this or thought of doing this with the Celestia engine.

The coolest one I've seen that comes close to the Celestia engine is Skyrails, but it's not open source yet and has little to no documentation. I also doubt it could handle many objects. Here is a video: http://video.google.com/videosearch?sou ... &ct=title#

Thoughts? I'd love to use something like this as an interactive graph visualization system.

Partiview is a 3D display program which is often used for 3D analysis. It's more general purpose than Celestia, although their functionality overlaps to a certain extent.

See http://virdir.ncsa.uiuc.edu/partiview/

Thanks for the link, I just checked out much of the material over there and several sample projects. Not bad.. It looks like it is an abandoned project though.. not much after 2004. I'd like to work on something that is current technology and under some active development. I found Celestia much more impressive than Partview's Digital Universe.

It's a "stable" product, heavily used by scientific projects which usually don't mention which analysis programs they use.

One of its more publicised uses is in the Hayden Planetarium's Digital Universe, which is updated about once a year or so.
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe

A commercial version is Uniview

http://scalingtheuniverse.com/