Year: 1986-1988 Software: GVS 1.0 - SRKeith Hardware: GE Graphicon, VAX 8850, C Title: Isotropic Potential Vorticity - Mars simulation Comments: My task at NASA Ames Space Sciences was to introduce scientific visualization to that division. In 1987, the term "scientific visualization" was introducted at the 1987 SIGGRAPH convention. GVS was my first visualization software project, and was designed to meet a large number of visualization needs. GVS means General Visualization System.