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QuikGrid Contents Copying, Redistribution conditions and Disclaimer
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I am a retired Computer Professional with a broad range of
computer skills gained providing technical,
management, and instructional support at the Computing
Services Department, University of British Columbia.
To see what keeps me busy in my retirement check my
home page at www.galiander.ca . I started my career at the University of BC in 1965. Initially, as a programmer, I was heavily involved in the support of Graphics. Later, as a manager, I was involved in the support of Computer Languages, Data Base systems, Microcomputers and Unix systems. I wrote the first version of QuikGrid in 1993 as
an exercise to learn how to program in C++ under the MS
Windows operating system. I originally developed the
underlying grid generation and contouring algorithms in FORTRAN
in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The program has
evolved since 1993 in response to requests from people who
use it. QuikGrid was sold as shareware until the end of
2003. At that time, as part of my retirement transition, I
turned it into freeware. Soon afterwards I released the
source code for the grid generation and contouring
modules. In 2005 I released the full source code. My goal
was to provide a compact, easy to use and extremely
fast tool to help visualize and analyze scattered data
points which define a surface.
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