The Glyph Toolbox [5] is a collection of tools, i.e. individual UNIX style command
line programs, that can be used to build a polygon-based virtual environment
and glyphs for data representation. Each tool outputs an ASCII based file
that is machine and rendering independent. The actual display of the ASCII files
is handled by a viewing program, such as DIVERSE/diversifly, VRML, Open Inventor,
etc. In some cases, an additional conversion to another file format may be
required.