George, Richard L. S. F.Roberts, Jonathan C.Davies, Alan G.John Collomosse and Ian Grimstead2014-01-312014-01-312010978-3-905673-75-3https://doi.org/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/TPCG/TPCG10/099-105We have been developing iCove: the interactive coastal oceanographic visualization environment. The challenge for the ocean scientists is that their models are complex and the datasets that are generated are huge. Furthermore, the oceanographers wish to interactively investigate and quantitatively compare different runs of these models. We propose a novel visual analytics tool to permit detailed exploration through interactive data querying to enable their analysis. This paper presents our experience of building iCove in Processing especially in comparison with our previous oceanographic tool building in VTK.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.8 [Computer Graphics]: Applications H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces