Here is an early example of visual programming for scientific visualization from 1989: http://vis.cs.brown.edu/docs/pdf/Upson-1989-AVS.pdf http://vis.cs.brown.

Here is an early example of visual programming for scientific visualization from 1989: http://vis.cs.brown.edu/docs/pdf/Upson-1989-AVS.pdf http://vis.cs.brown.edu/docs/pdf/Upson-1989-AVS.pdf The idea spawned many imitators (VTK, IBM DX, SGI Iris Explorer). The product was spun out of Stellar shortly afterwards, and the company is still in existence: https://www.avs.com/avs-express/ https://www.avs.com/avs-express/