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  <description brief="Visualization Messages">

<p>
visualization_msgs is a set of messages used by higher level packages, such as <a href="/wiki/rviz">rviz</a>, that deal in visualization-specific data.
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<p>
The main messages in visualization_msgs is <tt>visualization_msgs/Marker</tt>.  The marker message is used to send visualization "markers" such as boxes, spheres, arrows, lines, etc. to a visualization environment such as <a href="http:///www.ros.org/wiki/rviz">rviz</a>.  See the rviz tutorial <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/rviz/Tutorials">rviz tutorials</a> for more information.
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  </description>
  <author>Josh Faust/jfaust@willowgarage.com, David Gossow/dgossow@willowgarage.com</author>
  <license>BSD</license>
  <review status="unreviewed" notes=""/>
  <url>http://ros.org/wiki/visualization_msgs</url>

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