Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Foster
I'm also pretty excited about using the rift for scientific/technical visualization (I have a DK1), but so far that hasn't been reflected by an appropriate amount of spare hacking time. If you haven't already, I'd recommend checking out the VRUI youtube demos (for example, this one is pretty sweet

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Kevin Squire
Excellent! Glad to hear this. If I'm not too busy then, I'd be interested in helping/collaborating. Cheers, Kevin On Monday, May 19, 2014, Simon Danisch wrote: > Hi Kevin, > this is actually something I wanted to look into after GSOC, as I'm really > psyched about integrating Occulus Rift into

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Simon Danisch
@Chris Foster and @Andreas Lobinger: Very good points! Maybe I should describe what I already have, to channel the discussion a little. I want to take some more time for that, and maybe make a little graphic. Right now I don't have much time, so I might do that later ;) Thanks for all the feedback,

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Simon Danisch
Hi Kevin, this is actually something I wanted to look into after GSOC, as I'm really psyched about integrating Occulus Rift into the visualization engine, which would include to have different lense models and camera distortions in the render pipeline;) Am Montag, 19. Mai 2014 18:07:59 UTC+2 s

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Andreas Lobinger
Hello colleague, i really like the idea of splitting the instruction to plot to a what-where-how style. So an interface like plot(my_data[:,3:6],picture2, "marker with red outline"). Actually i'm testing some ideas to define "marker with red outline" in some sort of domain specific language - l

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Kevin Squire
In my spare time, I've recently been exploring some augmented reality projects. One challenge with existing systems is the disconnect between computer vision systems and 3D renderers. In particular, it would be really nice if it were easy (or at least possible) to add a camera distortion model to

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/19/14, 10:52, Jason Grout wrote: (see http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=vtjadv for an example of a point tracking the mouse on a sphere) Sorry; the correct link for the example is http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=yiarsu Thanks, Jason

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/17/14, 11:51, Simon Danisch wrote: Any feedback, ideas and comments are welcome! Simon, Just FYI, we've been working on an IPython widget wrapper around the three.js library for the IPython notebook: https://github.com/jasongrout/pythreejs (see http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=vtjadv

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Mike Innes
If you're looking for a consistent API between 2D and 3D it might be worth taking some inspiration from Gadfly – I don't know how easy it would be to extend the Grammar of Graphics style interface to 3D but if you can it would be a solid base to build on (alongside a more matlab-style API, I suppos

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Foster
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Chris Foster wrote: > I think these last two points probably generalise to 1D, 2D and 3D data. > IMO there's a case to be made for a simple default GUI with a capable > camera model and control over data set visibility. This would go a long > way toward making in

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Chris Foster
I like the general direction this project is going :) >From my point of view, 3D plotting with maximum interactivity of large data sets is a good thing to focus on. By "large" I mean anything up to the size of main memory on a single machine, or at least up to the available GPU memory. Publicati

[julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-18 Thread gael . mcdon
High quality and low complexity vector graphics. By high quality I mean clear, nice and customizable. By low complexity I mean direct generation of SVG/PDF primitives : opengl2ps is horrible for that purpose, for instance opengl spheres are approximated by thousands of triangles instead of just

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-18 Thread Tim Holy
Pour yourself a nice cup of tea and start reading here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/4pT81kO1jDE/dRvWbqYhJH8J https://github.com/nolta/Winston.jl/issues/89 --Tim On Sunday, May 18, 2014 07:02:10 AM Andreas Lobinger wrote: > Hello colleague, > > just as i read it > > On Saturday,

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-18 Thread Tobias Knopp
It starts to get interesting if you want to have a 2D online display where data is colorized and you want to apply filter operations that can easily done on the GPU. Interesting but IMHO basic 3D graphics is more important at this stage. Am Sonntag, 18. Mai 2014 16:02:10 UTC+2 schrieb Andreas L

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-18 Thread Andreas Lobinger
Hello colleague, just as i read it On Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:23:49 PM UTC+2, Tim Holy wrote: > > Also, really fast 2d plotting of large datasets would not be a bad thing. > Cairo + Gtk is not bad (and Gtk is quite a lot better than Tk in terms of > speed), but it's also not all that impressi

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-17 Thread J Luis
Hi Simon, In Earth Sciences, and Geophysics in particular, netCDF is king. There is a damn fast and good program called Fledermaus (http://www.qps.nl/display/fledermaus) that creates awesome 3D displays of grid surfaces (and some 3D solid objects as well). However, it's a commercial product th

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-17 Thread Tim Holy
Maximum intensity projection would be nice to have. Also, really fast 2d plotting of large datasets would not be a bad thing. Cairo + Gtk is not bad (and Gtk is quite a lot better than Tk in terms of speed), but it's also not all that impressive either. --Tim On Saturday, May 17, 2014 09:51:37

[julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-17 Thread Simon Danisch
Hi, I'm currently in the planning phase for my GSOC 3D Visualization project, which also means, that I need to define what the most important visualization forms are. I must admit, that I haven't done much plotting myself, so I would have to guess what the really important bits are. Instead of