Our experience has shown that it is relatively easy to develop new AVS modules from T3D applications. In addition, AVS provides a powerful user interface for these applications. Using the T3D, significant performance gains are possible for existing modules relative to other AVS platforms. The limiting factor is usually the speed at which the AVS data can be transferred between the frontend host and the T3D. In situations where the amount of parallel computation to be performed is substantial, our results indicate that the resulting speedups can be dramatic. Thus, execution of compute intensive AVS modules on the T3D appears to be an extremely promising approach to the problem of harnessing the power of parallel computation.