Scientific instruments, industrial systems, and monitoring devices often generate continuous streams of measurements. NOV Chart can display this information as it is collected, in real time, because it features Nevron's proprietary GPU accelerated 2D and 3D graphics engine. This allows users to observe massive datasets and see the changing values, detect anomalies, and evaluate system behavior in real time.

High-performance, GPU accelerated rendering can be combined with other technical content such as Gauges, Knobs, Tables, and other Instrumentation Widgets. This allows users to create responsive monitoring dashboards that combine raw measurements, calculated values, controls, and system schematics together in one view.

Line, Area, and Point charts are the primary series types used to present sampled signals, time-dependent measurements, calculated functions, frequency responses, temperature changes, pressure readings, and other continuous or discrete values.

NOV Chart provides conventional and high-performance implementations of these chart types. Supported are also variations of those charts such as Step Line and Smooth Line charts. Those features combined with the ability to display multiple series and axes make it possible to easily build charts that compare measurements that use different units or value ranges.

Other charts that are commonly used in scientific and engineering measurements are Error Bar charts. They can display uncertainty, tolerance, standard deviation, confidence intervals, or expected variation around measured and calculated values and are also fully supported by the control.

Surface charts represent three-dimensional data as a continuous or segmented surface. They are commonly used to visualize mathematical functions, terrain elevations, physical measurements, simulation results, optimization surfaces, finite-element data, and other values distributed across two spatial dimensions.

NOV Chart supports several specialized Surface Series:

• Grid Surface - visualizes values arranged in a regular two-dimensional matrix.
• Mesh Surface - provides control over the coordinates of individual points while preserving a connected grid structure.
• Triangulated Surface - constructs a surface from arbitrarily positioned XYZ points using an automatically generated Delaunay triangular network.
• Vertex Surface - provides low-level control over vertex positions, colors, and connectivity for custom 3D geometry.

Heatmaps provide a compact two-dimensional representation of matrix-based data. Each value is mapped to a color from an associated palette, allowing users to identify patterns, concentrations, gradients, boundaries, and anomalies quickly.

Heatmaps are commonly used for thermal analysis, signal intensity, correlation matrices, density distributions, spectrograms, medical imaging, and simulation results. Developers can control the origin and spacing of the data grid so that matrix values are mapped accurately to the horizontal and vertical axes.

Contour lines connect locations that share the same value and provide an additional analytical layer for identifying boundaries, gradients, peaks, valleys, and regions of equal intensity. NOV Chart supports automatic contour line extraction and annotation for both heatmaps and surface charts.

NOV Chart provides built-in tools for exploring large scientific datasets. Users can zoom in on regions of interest, pan across the chart, and scroll through data using interactive axis scrollbars. Mouse-wheel zooming can focus on the current pointer position, making it easier to examine a specific region without losing context.

Additional features include interactive cursors, tooltips, and hit testing. They allow users to inspect individual measurements directly within the chart.

Users can also rotate and inspect 3D charts from different viewing angles to reveal spatial relationships, overlapping structures, surface features, and data clusters that may not be visible from a fixed point of view.

NOV Chart can be used along-side with NOV Diagram, NOV Rich Text Editor, and the other controls in the suite to generate programmatic reports containing scientific data, charts, tables, formulas, and schematics.

Because NOV Chart and the rest of the controls in the suite can operate on any .NET Core server, it is well suited for automated report generation on AWS, Azure, Docker, and other ASP.NET Core-compatible environments.

Reports can be exported to raster and vector formats, including PNG, JPEG, SVG, and PDF, for use in presentations, technical publications, and high-resolution printing.