Re: [OpenDX2-users] OpenDX on Solaris SMP
Solaris should have automatic SMP capabilities. Have you used the Partition module on your data? David Hi, I have a quick question about the SMP capability of OpenDX. If I want to be able to use multiple threads, I have to compile Opendx with --enable-smp-linux. Does that literally mean only Linux? What about other Unixes which have pthread support? I'm trying to use more than one thread on a 8-way SMP machine with Solaris. I've started OpenDX with dx -processors 8, but when I start the computation prstat shows that dxexec doesn't use more than 12% of the resources (which is approx. 100% / 8). Could anybody clarify that? - Chris -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472 ___ OpenDX2-users mailing list OpenDX2-users@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opendx2-users
[opendx-dev] User Forums now available as well.
Since the IBM server has had disk space problems lately and the mailing lists have been down, I wanted to let everyone know that I've setup a User Forum for OpenDX. These can be accessed directly from the OpenDX.org web-site. Also, for those that like the e-mail lists better, you can set up the forums to notify you of new topics, etc. (I've done it and it works pretty well)--similar to a mailing list. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] slab + arbitrary dimension
You want MapToPlane instead. The plane can be arbitrary. Hi, I am wandering if there is a way to have a slab cut on an arbitrary direction, not only planes along the coord axes. Any hint will be appreciated. Thanks, Vlad -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] startup weirdness
Sorry, But I will not be able to help. No experience with that system. David i compiled dx myself. Open Visualization Data Explorer Executive, version 04.3.2000 (15:19:36, Sep 19 2005) Open Visualization Data Explorer User Interface, version 04.03.0002 (15:20:04, Sep 19 2005) Open Visualization Data Explorer Script, 04.3.2000 I run 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 (gentoo) x86_64 compiled with gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 20041125 ./configure --enable-smp-linux CFLAGS=-march=k8 CXXFLAGS=-march=k8 FFLAGS=-march=k8 On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:36, David Thompson wrote: Need more info. Is this a binary you downloaded or one you built? What OS? Which version? Dear opendx users, I got an issue with starting opendx first the good news. opendx is running fine when started with dx however when i try to open my program with dx -edit or dx -program the program hangs i ran with strace to see where thing go wrong and it seems to be during startup of the server. read(6, Starting DX executive\n, 8192) = 22 write(3, B\0\7\0\336\0\240\2\21\0\240\2\0\0\0\0\230\2\0\0\0\0\1..., 212) = 212 read(3, \34\356\237\t\321\0\240\2\371\0\0\0Vj,\5\0\0\240\2\250..., 32) = 32 read(3, 0x7f83c440, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)= 1 (in [3]) read(3, \1\1\266\t\0\0\0\0\321\0\240\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\33\0\0\0..., 32) = 32 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, NULL and that's it nothing else happens. The strange thing is that i can load a .net file stop and start the server with no problems when i started with dx - Edit Visual Program. i deleted my .dx-ad and reinstalled dx and dx-samples as user to exclude any permission issues. any ideas? cheers Thomas Geenen -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] startup weirdness
Need more info. Is this a binary you downloaded or one you built? What OS? Which version? Dear opendx users, I got an issue with starting opendx first the good news. opendx is running fine when started with dx however when i try to open my program with dx -edit or dx -program the program hangs i ran with strace to see where thing go wrong and it seems to be during startup of the server. read(6, Starting DX executive\n, 8192) = 22 write(3, B\0\7\0\336\0\240\2\21\0\240\2\0\0\0\0\230\2\0\0\0\0\1..., 212) = 212 read(3, \34\356\237\t\321\0\240\2\371\0\0\0Vj,\5\0\0\240\2\250..., 32) = 32 read(3, 0x7f83c440, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)= 1 (in [3]) read(3, \1\1\266\t\0\0\0\0\321\0\240\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\33\0\0\0..., 32) = 32 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, NULL and that's it nothing else happens. The strange thing is that i can load a .net file stop and start the server with no problems when i started with dx - Edit Visual Program. i deleted my .dx-ad and reinstalled dx and dx-samples as user to exclude any permission issues. any ideas? cheers Thomas Geenen -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Java Explorer question
Joel, Right now, this is not available. I suppose you could use the Pick interface and then construct a URL based on its return -- but then how to transmit this information back to the browser is a tough question. If you want to bounce some ideas off me, I'm willing to discuss it with you. David I've been experimenting with Java Explorer (with a fair amount of success) and I'm wondering if there is any way - by hook or by crook - to make objects in a scene hypertext links - when the user clicks on one while in Pick mode, the end result is the object's URL target is opened in a new browser window. My gut tells me this is not supported, nor will it be easy to implement. Obviously, my net has to somehow communicate the URL to the applet, which must open the new browser window. Assuming this is not currently possible, I'm willing to dig in and try to implement it, if that seems like a good idea. It would sure be useful for the things I'm trying to do. Any advice from the experts? Thanks in advance, Joel -- === Joel Richardson, Ph.D. Phone: (207) 288-6435 The Jackson Laboratory Fax: (207) 288-6132 600 Main Street URL: www.informatics.jax.org Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 === -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Image Module2
You're going to have to send us an example network to show this. I don't understand what is causing the error or even how to re-produce it. David If I write directly the path of files in the 'template' of the Format Module using the line name_of_directory/file.%02d.dx the direct-inteation works!! Somebody Knows why it is happening?? Please Marcelo Mariano IEN- Brasil -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] DX Arrays of strings
You need to create the array and then strcpy(data_array_ptr[index], str_value.c_str()); David Hello, Hopefully this is a question with a simple answer: I'd like to have a DX Array of strings (TYPE_STRING). When I use DXGetArrayData(...) to get the array, is the return type char* (pointer to an array)? I'm not finding documentation on this. My code looks something like: char* data_array_ptr = (char*)DXGetArrayData(array); data_array_ptr[index] = str_value.c_str(); // str_value is an object of the C++ STL string class, where the c_str() method returns a null-terminated C-style string. However, C++ errors out during compilation with the following message: invalid conversion from `const char*' to `char' I have also tried char** in place of char*, as that makes more sense, given I'm expecting to see an array of arrays. However, that results in a similar compile error too: invalid conversion from `const char*' to `char*' Any ideas? I must be making an incorrect assumption here about what is returned from the DXGetArrayData() function, but I don't see any documentation that helps me figure it out. Thanks, Matt -- -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] BW/grey
I'm betting that you are having a problem with the Ribbon's normals. Use Tube instead and see if that fixes it. David Hi! I use the color-module to create black lines for Showbox and for Isosurface-lines. When I try to get thicker lines with the Ribbon-module, the black gets lost and the lines are grey. How can I avoid that? Thanks in advance, Bernd. -- Bernd Jaeger, Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie, Universitaet Wien, Waehringer Strasse 42, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43-1-4277-52417, FAX: +43-1-4277-9524 --- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Dividing a surface into disconnected parts
The lack of response is due to the lack of an easy answer. The problem would be that the isosurface that is returned is a single field and thus not easily divided. You could use something like include on the positions to try and do this, but its not going to be easy. David Hello, I'm new to OpenDX, so please forgive me if what I'm asking is trivial. I have a 3-d scalar field f(x,y,z), and I managed to import it into OpenDX and have it calculate an isofurface f(x,y,z)=c using the Isosurface module. For my input data, this surface consist of several disconnected parts. How can I plot each part in a separate color? Right now, since by definition the value of the field is constant for each surface, they are all plotted in the same color. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Lutz -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Configuring OpenDX on a Mac
Joel,
You can set the following environment variables to override things:
DXMDF=path2mdf/file.mdf
DXMACROS=path2macrosdirectory
DXARGS=-directory /workingpath
.bashrc is not consulted from an app that is not started from a
terminal. You can follow the thread on Apple's X11 mailing list for
more information on environment variables and apps, see
http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2004/Dec/msg00085.html
Your best bet would be to place these variables in the
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as mentioned here
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPRuntimeConfig/Concepts/EnvironmentVars.html
By the way, you will need to logoff and login for environment.plist
to take effect.
A technote from Apple talks about creating this file
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html.
I just tried it out to make sure it works and it does as I state. I
will make sure to add this to the documentation for the next release.
It really is a nice feature. If you have the Property List Editor
from the developer tools, it can help to make sure the syntax is
correct.
David
Hey DXers,
I am running the Vis Inc. distribution of OpenDX 4.3.2 on a Powerbook
G4 running OSX 10.3.9.
I've got a bunch of macros and runtime loadable modules that I'd
like to have available every time I start dx. Similarly, I'd like
the working directory to be set to a particular location.
The standard mechanism (setting env variables) works fine if I
invoke dx from the command line. But if I launch it via the
application icon or open a .net file, my settings have no effect.
The variables
are set in my .bashrc file.
I'm able to make the macros visible by placing them under
${HOME}/Library/Application Support/OpenDX/macros
as described in the distribution notes. But I cannot make
my loadables visible, and the working directory is always /.
Thanks in advance,
Joel
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Joel Richardson, Ph.D. Phone: (207) 288-6435
The Jackson Laboratory Fax: (207) 288-6132
600 Main Street URL: www.informatics.jax.org
Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
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David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804
Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Configuring OpenDX on a Mac
I tested the DXARGS specifically because this was the most interesting and it worked with no problems (changed my directory to my Desktop). Can you check it again? Can you check it on the command line and see if it works? I guess, I should also know what you mean by it doesn't work (mine made all FileSelectors and Open/Save dialogs default to the Desktop folder I set it to.) Remember you have to log out and log in each time you make a change to the environment.plist file (its only read once at log in time.) Can you set the -host localhost okay via the command line? You could also try to set DXHOST=unix which will just assume a localhost but not even try to look up the machine name. David David, Thanks - this works as advertised ... mostly! 1. Setting DXMDF, DXMODULES, and DXMACROS in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist works just fine. 2. Setting DXARGS to change the working directory does not work - I still end up at the root dir. 3. Also, I'd like to set host to localhost. (Otherwise ssh complains, and I have to open a connection manually from VPE.) If I set DXHOST (or add -host localhost to DXARGS) in environment.plist, dx fails to launch. I see the launcher progress bar, but it just goes away, and there's no dx main menu. I *can* set DX*host in ~/.dx-ad, however. Thanks, Joel -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Valid / Invalid Positions
Emmanuelle, I looked at your program and determined the problem. DX is working as it should. It is a problem with the construction of your tube. You have a tube that only has 3 points in Z, and the bottom point is below your zmin value so it is invalidated, thus the bottom half disappears. You can easily fix this by making your tube higher than the zmin (which you should do), but you should also increase the tube's resolution. I'd suggest setting Grid's density to at least 20 since your grid is not evenly distributed. I hope this helps and if you should need more help in the future, we can usually answer these kinds of problems very quickly if you purchase a single tech support incident from VIS, Inc. David Hi, I've recently post a topic for a problem concerning the visualisation of a tube in a 3D field, which isn't complete because of invalid positions. I didn't find the solution of my problem, so I've put a smal version of the program and the corresponding data on the web. You can download it at : http://www.savefile.com/files/5041823 and click on 'Download' The principle of the programm is to visualize a 3D field on a grid contained in another file, and to map it on a tube. If anyone could take some time to look at it, it would really help me!! Thanks -- Emmanuelle LAFONT NUMTECH 6, allée Alan Turing - BP 30242 Parc Technologique de La Pardieu 63175 AUBIERE Cedex Tel: 04 73 28 75 95 Fax: 04 73 28 75 99 www.numtech.fr -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Valid / Invalid Positions
Which modules are you running your data through that produces the invalid positions? David Hi, I'ld like to understand how and why any valid positions become invalid. I've searched in the doc, but it's not clear for me. Is there a way to avoid positions to become invalid? Thanks! -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
[opendx-users] New functionality for cygwin in CVS.
I have just recently uploaded some fixes to the cvs repository for the following: Requirements for building loadable OpenDX modules in the Cygwin environment. Loadable modules on the Windows platform have been possible since OpenDX was released. There are many intricate operations that must be performed, but those operations have been incorporated into the build operation since OpenDX 4.2. Building OpenDX under the Cygwin environment has not gotten the same attention to detail due to the lack of funding or interest. Loadable modules have never been tested by any of the major OpenDX players. VIS, Inc. was approached by a University-based research group to provide this functionality for one of their software projects. After a thorough investigation, here is what we have found and have since added the appropriate functionality within the build environment to allow for loadable modules within Cygwin/OpenDX. Loadable modules within Cygwin must be compiled as a Window's .dll. There are several things that must be set up within the .dll to allow proper interaction between it and the dxexec executable. This assumes that the cygwin/gcc environment is being used. 1. The source files for loadable modules must be compiled with the -shared flag. 2. The dxexec must be compiled to export all symbols that may be used by the loadable module. These include the entire DX library. 3. The linker when linking the dxexec must produce the link table that can then be used to link to the loadable module. This gives the entry points of all the functions in the DX library (within the executable) to the loadable module. This is done with the --out-implib link option (done automatically during a build). 3. The entry point must be defined when linking the loadable module with the -e link option. 4. To produce the dll, all the source objects for the loadable module, and the link table for the dxexec must be linked together. All of the build processes have been updated to reflect these requirements and the Makefile's produced by the module builder have been dramatically changed to reflect these requirements. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] newbie question about lookup
Which version of DX are you using? I found a bug in 4.3.2 in the Lookup module and it has been fixed in CVS. David I'd like some help wrt Lookup. As a starting point I used GroceryList and almost got to where I wanted to be. What remains is getting the sizes of the spheres to be relative to the corresponding entry in 'column2'. Apparently, I haven't understood Lookup yet. Any hint will be appreciated. Thanks, Marko -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] 3D barchart
If you can put your data on a connections dependent grid and then Rubbersheet, you will get a 3D bar chart. David Hi, I'm trying to generate a 3D barchart. The input is an array of scalar values. With the barchart-module it's very simple to generate a 2D barchart, but how can I expand this with a third dimension? Is there a easier way to do this, than drawing every single bar and put them at the end together? Best regards, Marco -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Plotting circles in a plane
Your Glyph call isn't quite right for what you're trying to achieve. You want Glyph(data, circle, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0); I think that whill get you what you want. David Hello OpenDX-users, I would like to plot circles with a given position and radius in a plane. Is that possible? Up to now, I have tried the following: I have written out a file blobs.dx with the content object 1 class array type float rank 1 shape 2 items 2 data follows 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7 object 3 class array type float rank 0 items 2 data follows 0.5 0.3 attribute dep string positions object blobs class field component positions value 1 component data value 3 end and I used the script commands: data = Import(blobs.dx); glyphs = Glyph(data, circle, 1.0, 1.0); camera = AutoCamera (glyphs); image = Render(glyphs, camera); Display(image); Unfortunately, the output does not really fit my expectations, i.e. the radii are not correct. I have also played around with the visual editor, but also with little success. What am I doing wrong? Does anyone know a script or visual program where such a thing is done? Thank you for any information, Nicolas. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] merge 2d scalar fields
Create the grid big enough for both meshes and then use Map. David Hi, I have several rectangular 2D scalar fields (intensity vs. 2D coordinate, regular square grid), all with the same step size (i.e. they live on the same mesh, but in different areas and only partially overlap). I would now like to merge them into one field, so that I can e.g. transpose and and then average them. CollectMultiGrid does not create a single field as output, so doesn't work. When I try to first regrid the input fields on the same field made by construct, the areas where no data exist are not zero, but some interpolated value, and adding the input fields afterwards will add that interpolated intensity to the other patches. The approach with compute that works e.g. with merging two scalar fields that live on the same grid to obtain a vector field does not work, since the grids of the input fields are not the same and overlap at best partially. Making a large field encompassing the area of the input fields, filling it with zeroes and then trying to add the individual fields to it fails since the sizes of the grids do not match. So I ran out of ideas. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks for any hints, Wolfgang -- Dr. Wolfgang Braun Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik Hausvogteiplatz 5-7 D-10117 BERLIN phone (downtown office): +49-(0)30-20377-366 phone (BESSY): +49-(0)30-6392-3436 fax (downtown): +49-(0)30-20377-201 fax (BESSY): +49-(0)30-6392-2969 mobile: +49-(0)160-99882210 -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] shading problem with cubes
I'm not quite sure what you are saying, but I think I see what you mean. The problem lies with the shading. If you Import- ShowBoundary- AutoColor- Shade(faceted)- Image. I think you will see your problems disappear. The smooth shading you see is going to try and phong shade each boundary--it appears that their may be a small problem in ordering of the nodes (but not positive). David Hi, I have reposted the problem but the answers did not solve the problem. I have 4 cubes. +---++---+ | | B| | | A ++ D | | | C| | +---++---+ The shading of B,C is erroneous. I included this simple exaple in an import.dx file. Try Import(file=import.dx)-ShowBoundary-AutoColor-Image. See bottom and front view In a mush more complex flow field I have to diel with, looks very agly... -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] shading problem with cubes
Looking at this further, it appears that cubes may have a smooth shading problem due to the way the normals are calculated. If you AutoGlyph the normals of a smooth shaded object, I'm not sure they are right; however, this is a moot point since what you want is faceted shading on these cubes anyway (normals are connection based not positions based). David Hi, I have reposted the problem but the answers did not solve the problem. I have 4 cubes. +---++---+ | | B| | | A ++ D | | | C| | +---++---+ The shading of B,C is erroneous. I included this simple exaple in an import.dx file. Try Import(file=import.dx)-ShowBoundary-AutoColor-Image. See bottom and front view In a mush more complex flow field I have to diel with, looks very agly... object nodes class array type float rank 1 shape 3 items 20 data follows 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 0 0.5 2 0 0.5 1 1 0.5 2 1 0.5 object cubes class array type int rank 1 shape 8 items 4 data follows 0 1 4 5 8 9 12 13 16 17 18 19 9 10 13 14 1 2 5 6 16 17 18 19 2 3 6 7 10 11 14 15 attribute element type string cubes attribute ref string positions object data class array type float rank 0 items 4 data follows 0 1 1 2 attribute dep string connections object field class field component positions value nodes component connections value cubes component data value data -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Statistics
Include - Statistics. Hi, I want to use the 'Statistics' module to get mean and stddev of the data in my field. My problem is, that I do not want all data included, but only the values 0. How can I do that? Thanks in advance! Christoph -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] unable to connect to dxexec
From the faq http://www.opendx.org/faq.html#cantconnect The user interface and the server (exec) communicate over sockets. Netwoking must work in order for this process to work completely. There are several reasons why this communictaion may fail. One may be that your hostname does not resolve properly. You can test this by using the ping, and hostname commands to determine if you can ping your own machine or you can try setting the DXHOST environment variable to unix to default to the local machine. A second reason may be that you have a firewall running on your system that refuses the socket communication over the IP ports that DX uses. Try shutting off your firewall to see if this fixes the problem. Other tests to try: Does dx -execonly work? -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] unable to connect to dxexec
One of the tests you can always do is dx -uionly dx -execonly Then go into the UI and try to connect to an already running server. See if it allows you to get past it. If not, then I'd almost bet that there is some kind of network problem on the machine (sockets are somehow getting blocked). David -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] vtk format in opendx
Does VTK have a full description of their data format? If so, it wouldn't take much to write and importer for it. David Hi, is there any way to import vtk formated data files in opendx. The structure of these data files look like: ?xml version=1.0? VTKFile type=RectilinearGrid format=ascii RectilinearGrid WholeExtent=1 82 1 50 1 66 Piece Extent=1 82 1 50 1 66 Coordinates DataArray NumberOfComponents=1 format = ascii type=Float32 Name=x-coords 0. 0.10001 0.30012 0.5 ... ... /DataArray DataArray NumberOfComponents=1 format = ascii type=Float32 Name=y-coords 0. 0.0116908271 0.0362415649 0.0632473826 ... ... /DataArray DataArray NumberOfComponents=1 format = ascii type=Float32 Name=z-coords 0.00E+00 1.00E-01 3.00E-01 5.00E-01 ... ... /DataArray /Coordinates PointData Vectors=VelocityPhase1 DataArray NumberOfComponents=3 format = ascii type=Float32 Name=VelocityPhase1 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 1.000189E-10 ... ... /DataArray /PointData /Piece /RectilinearGrid /VTKFile I mean, could this be done with a sort of 'general' file or does there even exist some kind of module to import these kind of data formats? Would be realy nice! Best Greetings! Fabian -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Linewidth
To get your ShowBox on top of the Isosurfaces (you're probably seeing a blending of the Box and the Isosurface), you need to add some fuzz to it. Search for fuzz in the documentation. David Hi! I use the Isosurface module to generate lines within my 2D-data. How can I control the linewidth? And one more question: I use Showbox to get a black frame around my figures, but with colored lines for the isosurfaces, there are colored dots in the frame, where an Isosurface hits the frame. How can I make sure that the frame is black? Thanks in advance, Bernd. -- Bernd Jaeger, Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie, Universitaet Wien, Waehringer Strasse 42, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43-1-4277-52417, FAX: +43-1-4277-9524 --- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] WriteImage and Mpeg
There is no way to create an MPEG directly from DX. We've always used ImageMagick or other post-processing tools to create them from stills or miffs. David I have ImageMagick and mpegvidcodec installed, and would like to create a mpeg movie of the data sequences without the need to create a lot of stills first. I have found that transforming them into jpeg or such, then creating a movie out of those results in poor picture quality. Is there a way to say the output directly as a movie file? I tried, but it does not seem to append the image but rewrite the image. Therefore, this results in a single frame movie file. I believe that this is what the writeimage matrix in the reference guide is stating, but I would like to double check with someone more in the know. I can save the output as a miff series, but when I try to transform the miff to mpeg using convert, I get a vbv_delay overflow error. If I can't generate a mpeg directly from dx (which would be ideal), then I talk to the ImageMagick people about what a vbv_delay overflow error is... Thanks for the help, -- Brent Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] multi-component: how to flush memory after each component
With the current Import, there is no way to do this. You would have to write your own custom Import. You could re-organize your data to be a series of fields at which point you could then select and only Import one at a time--but then you have the issue of how do you get the list of members to select from without Importing the entire data set. David Hi, I have a .dx file which contains several fields. There is a list of the name of these components in the file. So I use extract to read in this list, which is then passwd to a Selector to pick one out for visualization: FileSelector - Import - Extract (list) - Selector (showing the list) - Mark (one component) - IsoSurface - autoColor - Img I noticed that when I fired up openDX it will read in ALL component fields. The memory requirement for each of the component field is not very big. But since I have 100 or so component fields, I am afraid DX will exhaust the memory by reading all of them in. So my question is, how can I read in just one component each time. When I changed to another component (through the Selector), is it possible to flush the previous component and read in the new one? Thank you for reading this. Linhui Ye Northwestern University -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Image: Display: Bad parameter: Cannot open X display ':0.0'
Did it really use 10.0 and not 11.0? David So what is the DISPLAY set to when you run it remotely via -script? On the remote computer: ~ echo $DISPLAY s00505:11.0 I thought that OpenDX might have a problem with resolving the s00505 name, so I fully qualified it to DISPLAY=s00505.nersc.gov:11.0 and ran: dx -execonly -verbose, but I got the same error. Because I passed the -verbose option, I was able to see the actual value OpenDX uses: DISPLAY=s00505.nersc.gov:10.0 I really have no idea what the problem might be. Thanks best, Irek -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Image: Display: Bad parameter: Cannot open X display ':0.0'
So what is the DISPLAY set to when you run it remotely via -script? David David, Thank you for your e-mail. On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, David Thompson wrote: Can you run dx in script mode and get an x window to pop up on your local system? Yes, I can. I can see the image. This is my session: -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Image: Display: Bad parameter: Cannot open X display ':0.0'
No, it does work such that the OpenDX server creates an X11 window and then the GUI attaches itself to it. The server and the GUI talk to the same X window by setting up callbacks on the one X window. Can you run dx in script mode and get an x window to pop up on your local system? David Hi Marilyn, Brent others, Thanks you for your responses. Do you need to ssh -X to enable X data through from the server, or an xhosts + to let the workstation display X data from a remote server? Yes, I made sure X11 forwarding is enabled. I ran xterm to check it. So this is not the problem. I am not sure that OpenDX works that way: that the OpenDX server opens a regular X11 window. I suspect that the server communicates with the GUI, and GUI is responsible for displaying the image. I think that way, because when I ran my program the GUI opened a black window for an image. The window remained open after I killed the server. Best, Irek -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] clipping off elements based on their position
Ah yes, now I see the logic mistake. I just do this so often that I forget about it. I always copy positions to a component named 'orig positions' first and then always replace it back. Sorry about that. David As Karl has discovered, though, there's a flaw in this logic. 'b' yields a 'data' component that is now a scalar. Thus, 'd' returns this scalar to positions (by default, since no other component is named for Unmark to direct the data back to.) Therefore, 'f' should generate an error about trying to take the second component of a scalar. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] clipping off elements based on their position
a = Mark(yourData, positions); b = Compute(a, a.0); c = Include(b, 5, 10); d = Unmark(c); so to continue so you can clip y and z, do the following e = Mark(d, positions); f = Compute(a, a.1); g = Include(f, ymin, ymax); h = Unmark(g); ... on to z. David David, Thanks for your suggestion and it has definitely pointed me in the right direction. What I am still not able to figure out is how to relate d (in your network snippet below) back to the y and z coordinates - Compute is passing only the x coordinates to Include. I can't include y and z in this Compute because then they will be operated on by the same Include, which won't work with the coordinates of the data and besides I would like to clip those axes independently. And having separate Computes and Includes for the x and y coordinates is not working, at least not the way that I have the network constructed. Thanks for your help, Karl -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Visualization problem
If you're curious if its a graphics card problem, then render in software and see if they appear. Is it possible, you have invalid data in your data? If so, try culling it before doing the Isosurface. David Hi, I've already ask it a few days ago but without answer. My problem is when I visualize isosurfaces, I sometimes have parasite bands which all go to one point in the image (often the center of the image).I've put a sample image. There is my isosurfaces on the left, and the parasite bands on the right. I would like to know if it comes from my graphic card, or if it's an OpenDX rendering problem, or anything else. Thanks for help. Emmanuelle, France Attachment converted: DataDrive:Pb 1.png (PNGf/ogle) (009F71D0) -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Bitmap Problems.
I see 3 solutions: 1-Generate a thicker isosurface (with a transverse gradient) You can always apply a Tube to the generated lines to achieve thicker lines. If you are rendering in Hardware/OpenGL you can also set multipixel lines (look in the manual). 2-Algorithm for interpolation (I don't know what it's called... Consists of shading nearby regions instead of generating just one pixel to render the line) 3-Output in vector format We have worked on a postscript output generator, but it has bugs. Not sure if/when we're going to release. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] header incompatibility between opendx and graphviz
It is quite a headache and can be a long and laborious process. That is why we charge for the CD and charge for certain versions we compile. David There's a lot of libraries to compile. I noticed that one of the compiles (dx?) is dependant on libGLU and libstdc++.so.6, while libGLU (built a while ago) is dependant on libstdc++.so.5. So I should get a newer libGLU and recompile libGLU too. I wonder if keeping the libraries updated scales exponentially? :-) thanks Joe -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] header incompatibility between opendx and graphviz
DX does not have any such thing (support for graphviz). I think
you're seeing something else going on. I would bet that you've
compiled graphviz support into ImageMagick and then the Magick-config
is pulling something in.
Sorry I can't be of more help, but I don't have any idea how this
include could be getting pulled in. Do you have more information
about the make process (what file was it trying to compile, etc.)?
David
I'm attempting to compile dx with graphviz support (because the configure
script looks for graphviz, but I don't really know what graphviz does)
the definition of point in graphviz-2.3 (/usr/include/graphviz/types.h)
typedef struct point {
int x,y;
} point;
the definition of point in dx-4.3.2 (../include/dx/basic.h) is
typedef struct point (
float x,y,z;
} Point, Vector;
The dx compile stops on reaching the definition of point saying that
it's already declared.
I looked in older versions of graphviz (1.12) and dx (4.2.0) to find the
same definitions, i.e. this situation has been around for a while. I've
previously compiled these older versions of dx with graphviz and not
had any trouble (I've got a working version of dx at least).
What should I do to get dx to compile?
Thanks
Joe
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Re: [opendx-users] Changing orientation of a plane at runtime
We've done this in our visualizations by allowing the user to use two picks or a probe list in the scene. The user can manipulate one probe for the center the other for the outside axis and then render some plane through it. You can also use three probes if you need truly arbitrary planes. Then from the probes, construct the plane center vector and normal vector. David Hello again :) I have a 3-d scalar data set, and I map it to a 2-d scalar data set with MapToPlane. Is there a way to get a better control than the way supplied by 2 vectors (position and normal). I know I can use the slab and make it move back and forth, but I want an arbritary plane and as far as I know, the slab does not do that. Basically I want to be able to rotate the plane almost as easily as the viewdirection. And I still have not solved my other issue (above) :) Any hints? Arne * Arne Klaveness Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo PO Box 1033 Blindern N-0315 OSLO, NORWAY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +47 480 09 490 * -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] map data on construction
Yes it should. Hallo opendx-users, one short second question. Shouldn't it work the same way for isosurfaces? I mean, I want to map my pressure data on the velocity-isosurfaces. Best Regards! Fabian -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] ShowBoundary crash...
Please file a bug on this. You may wish to try setting cull to 0 or 1 and try again. See if one or the other produces the correct result. David Hi, I've got a problem with the ShowBoundary module. I'm visualizing a 3D field with the ShowBoundary module without any problem. Now, I want to reduce the domain, so I use Mark(Position), Include(new boundaries), and UnMark just after the importation. With MapToPlane or Isosurface I don't have problems and the domain is correctly reduced.But if I use ShowBoundary, the program ends, disconnect from the server, and I've got the following error message : 0 : Internal error detected at showboundary.c:931. /usr/local/bin/dx: line 1: 3070 Abandon /usr/local/dx/bin_linux/dxexec -r -p1 -B I really don't see what to do! Thanks for any help Emmanuelle Lafont Clermont-Ferrand, France -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Simple Graphing?
There are lots of ways to do it in DX. Not quite sure what you mean by smooth, but take a look at the Plot examples. David I have been playing around with OpenDX for a few hours and it is a cool program. One thing that I do a lot is plot lines/smoothed lines from data in CSV files. Can OpenDX do this or do I need to use another package for it? Can I for example plot a line from a CSV File like this 0,100 1,49 2,24 3,12 4,6 5,3 6,1 7,0 And get graph with the points plotted and lines connecting them? What about smoothed lines? Whats the basic VP (Visual Program) to graph such a line from a file? I know this may be an extremely simple task, perhaps even bellow OpenDX, but its something I would like the be able to do so that I can incorporate line graphs into OpenDX visualizations. Thank you for your time, Arrummzen -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] map data on construction
How do you want this mapping to take place? Are you looking to wrap your data somehow around the cube or just looking to show the data that intersects with the cube faces on the cube? How is your 3D-data represented? Is it a regular 3D mesh? David Hi all, I have a cube Construction on which I want to map my pressure-data using Map; so I actually want to visualize my 3D-data from the whole domain just on that cube. I make the cube with Construction and use ShowBoundary to make the cube visible; the ouput of ShowBoundary is the 'input Map' and my 3-D data are the 'map Map' of Map. Running that net I get a strange colored cube; actually the cube has stripes on it. It looks that OpenDX is not sure which color to represent; the ShowBoundary or the pressure data. I checked my pressure data with 'MapToPlane' on one side of the cube, which works fine. Does anybody have an idea how I can visualize my pressure data on the cube nicely? Best Greetings! -- Fabian Braennstroem Duesseldorf/Berlin -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] clipping off elements based on their position
This is fairly straight forward. a = Mark(yourData, positions); b = Compute(a, a.0); c = Include(b, 5, 10); d = Unmark(c); Now d no longer includes those portions of the grid (you may want to cull the include). David Hello DX'ers, I've got a 3-d field of elements having irregular positions, although only the z-dimension positions are actually irregular - the x and y positions are regularly-spaced. It's essentially a finite-element mesh. I'm trying to remove elements, not based on their value (which can be accomplished using the Include module), but rather based on their x and y positions. For example, let's say that the domain ranges from x=0 to x=10, y=0 and y=20, and z=0 to z=5. What I'd like to do is remove all elements from x=0 to x= 5 so that I can see what is happening inside the volume. Note that the elements are visualized as solids using ShowBoundary and FaceNormals. I've tried ClipPlane, but the elements on the clipping plane are not rendered as opaque so they do not appear. Slab won't work either, because the connections are irregular. In addition, my attempts at using ClipVolumeMacro have not been at all successful. This seems like it should be pretty straight forward, but I'm obvioulsy missing some critical aspect. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Karl Pohlmann -- Karl Pohlmann Associate Research Hydrogeologist Division of Hydrologic Sciences Desert Research Institute 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119 Phone: 702-862-5485Fax: 702-862-5427 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dri.edu/People/karl/ -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] random(a,b) function crashes?
Please add a bug to the bug reporter. I will try and get a look at it later. David Hey DX listers, I'm running OpenDX 4.3.2 on Solaris 8. The random() function consistently causes dx to dump core. It does not seem to be a problem for the Mac version. I have checked the bug database at opendx.org and there is no mention of this, although the release note for OpenDX 4.3 mentions a fix to random() for Windows. Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a workaround or a patch? Thanks, Joel -- === Joel Richardson, Ph.D. Phone: (207) 288-6435 The Jackson Laboratory Fax: (207) 288-6132 600 Main Street URL: www.informatics.jax.org Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 === -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-dev] dx/src/exec/dxmods import_ss.c
Joel, That's the one that I added. By the way, it has been me not Greg adding all of these patches lately. For some reason the name on my account got switched back to Greg's. David Hi Greg, Don't know what this patch is, but is there any chance you could add the patch I posted a while back? See: http://opendx.npaci.edu/mail/opendx-dev/2004.05/msg00018.html It would be a huge help if this bug could be fixed. Thanks, Joel Greg Abram wrote: Update of /src/master/dx/src/exec/dxmods In directory opendx.watson.ibm.com:/tmp/cvs-serv14596 Modified Files: import_ss.c Log Message: Add Richard's patch. -- === Joel Richardson, Ph.D. Phone: (207) 288-6435 The Jackson Laboratory Fax: (207) 288-6132 600 Main Street URL: www.informatics.jax.org Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 === -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Organization of the Image Window
You can sure set the default size and default view of an ImageWindow by passing in a default camera that you assign. Not sure what you are trying to do with organization. Can you be a little more precise? David Hi, I've got two questions concerning the Image Window. First I'ld like to know if it's possible to fix the default size of the Image Window. I don't want to use a Display or a SuperviseWindow module because I want to keep the Options fonctionnalities of Image. Secondly, I'm searching a way to organize the Image Window. I visualise many data, and so, many legends obtained with ColorBar modules.The Image Window becomes rapidly saturated. Does anyone has solutions to organize all the components? I tried the Arrange Module, but rotations and zoom are aplied to all the parts of the window. Thanks for any suggestions! Emmanuelle Lafont - Emmanuelle Lafont NUMTECH 6 allée Alan Turing 63175 Aubière cedex -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Importing binary date with binary header
It is not that sophisticated. You could dig into the code for dx and fix it to work this way, or you could write yourself a simple little program to return a properly formatted .general file and import it with the !script option of Import. David I cannot get grid = msb binary , int, bytes 64, 0,4,0,4 to work. I also tried grid=msb binary, int, lines 0, 64, 4, 0, 4 -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Black color problem
I think what you are seeing is the effect of light bouncing off a black surface. Depending on how you are rendering it, you can change Lighting values to effect the true blackness of the render. If you rotate the image, does the black look different and different orientations. If so, this is definitely your problem. Are you trying to use black on a black background (trying to make it non-existent?) If so, you may be better off to invalidate the data in the black range instead. David Hello, I use OpenDX to visualize CT data in greyscale. My problem is, that black color in the colormap editor does not show up black but (light) grey in the image, e.g. the black-to-white distribution is reduced to gray-to-white. Any idea what causes this behaviour? Thanks! Christoph -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
[opendx-users] Faces Loops and Edges behavior - please comment
I've been working on a Illustrator/Postscript to dx converter and have found an interested FLE issue that I had never been presented with before. I thought I had found a hole slew of bugs within the implementation of FLE's that was going to make this converter worthless--however, what I found was that there are two separate rendering approaches to FLE's within DX. The default one is faster but crashes consistently when FLE's have coincidental points or crossing edges. The slightly slower version (which is turned on with an environment variable) renders all of my FLE's appropriately and does not crash (even with crossing edges). I'd like to hear from everyone--if they would be opposed to changing the default to the non-crashing version and have it set so that you can choose the faster version with an envirnonment variable instead. Let me know. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] cvs space error
Did you just try this today or earlier. Peter just kicked the server yesterday. David When trying to download from the CVS: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/src/master checkout dx can't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv7784 No space left on device Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible to fix this? Thank you. Marilyn -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] VPE: Error, Connection to the server has been broken ??
You're probably going to need to upgrade your OpenDX pkg to one that's been compiled for 5.3. Connection to the server is done with sockets and it is possible that something is working quite right with the binaries. The other thing to check is if you have some type of firewall installed. If so, you need to open up port 1900. David Hello, I have upgraded my FreeBSD operating system, from 4.10 to 5.3. Under 4.10, OpenDX was running like a charm. Now, the OpenDX VPE does not anymore connect to the server (whatever that means), by popping up an error dialog: Error Connection to the server has been broken. Of course I tried to reconnect, play a bit with the options etc., but to no avail. Also, I don't really know what's going on here. Can somebody help me with this? What is OpenDX doing when it tries to connect to the server? I desperately need to run OpenDX, but I can't do anything as it is now. Thanks! Rob. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Window focus on Macs
Joel, This is the function of the quartz-wm Window manager. It is a pain especially for dx. I've changed my focus policy within the window manager so that it focuses on the window that the mouse is over immediately. It solves the problem you talk about with the ImageWindow always gaining focus. To do that, you need to add the key wm_ffm as true to the com.apple.x11.plist file in your ~/Library/Preferences file. I've read that it can be set using: in terminal defaults write com.apple.x11 xm_ffm true then to delete the behavior if you don't like it, defaults write com.apple.x11 delete wm_ffm I didn't have any luck with this, so I editted the file by hand and added it. Of course you will need to restart X11 whenever you change this file. David I've been running OpenDX on my Mac and mostly everything is great. My one problem is having to first click on a window to make it active, before doing whatever in that window. Since working with OpenDX usually requires frequent switching between windows (control panels, dialog boxes, image windows, etc.) all those extra clicks add up to a real pain. Even worse, focus automatically switches to the image window on every execution, so activities like stepping through values in a control panel becomes a truly frustrating experience. On my Sun box, this is not an issue, because I have it configured to give focus to whichever window the mouse is over. I cannot find a way to do this on a Mac. (I'm running OS X 10.3.6, using Apple's X11 v.1.0 - based on XFree86 4.3.) Does anyone else have this problem, and is there a way around it? Thanks! Joel -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] ColoBar adjusts color
Are you talking about the ColorBar or the Colormap? The ColorBar just represents the colors that are used. If it is changing, then your Colors are changing (are you using AutoColor?) If you are using a ColorMap, then don't data drive it--if you are using AutoColor, set it's min and max. David Hi, I visualize some data sequences from several data-files. This works actually nice, but I have trouble to get the ColorBar not changing the colors for every different data-file. Right, now ColorBar adjusts the new data-file. I tried to avoid this by setting the 'min' and 'max' values, but this did not help. Can anybody give me any advice? Fabian Braennstroem Duesseldorf/Berlin -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Probleme with the module builder
If you can write up a full bug report on OS, and how to reproduce the problem, we'd appreciate it. I haven't seen a seg fault in the Module Builder since 4.3. David I've got version 4.3.2. I've made some tests : if I use two fields in input (like the Add2 module), I always have a segmentation fault. Which version of OpenDX are you running? David Hi, I want to create a module with the Module Builder. This module must take two fields in input (in order to concatene them).I tried the exemple Add.mdf and it works. I tried to write my module, but when I click on Build and Create All, the Module Builder close, and I've got a segmentation fault.Next I tried the exemple Add2.mdf which is applied in 'dx/samples/program_guide', and which takes two fields in input. But I've got the same result.I don't understand. Is there something I've done wrong? Thanks -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Increasing width of lines in output
You will have to use hardware rendering to see the results of this, however. The way to do it with software rendering is to tube your line. David --On 11/08/2004 09:14:28 AM +1300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to control the width of lines drawn in a DX application, but can't see how. Use module Options to set line width and up to about 30 other attributes. This module just hangs the attribute on the field for use by other downstream modules such as Plot and Image. Check the docs to see which attribute is used by what. Kent -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Probleme with the module builder
Which version of OpenDX are you running? David Hi, I want to create a module with the Module Builder. This module must take two fields in input (in order to concatene them).I tried the exemple Add.mdf and it works. I tried to write my module, but when I click on Build and Create All, the Module Builder close, and I've got a segmentation fault.Next I tried the exemple Add2.mdf which is applied in 'dx/samples/program_guide', and which takes two fields in input. But I've got the same result.I don't understand. Is there something I've done wrong? Thanks -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Printing informations on a Control Panel
Sorry the answer is no. But this sounds quite useful. Why don't you file a feature request in the bugreporter at http://www.opendx.org/bugs David Hi, I'm searching a way to print informations on a control panel. Like a label who which react to the data. I can do that with a SelectorList, but I don't want buttons because there is nothing to choose, it's only informations which depends on the data. Is there a way to do that? Thanks for any ideas! - Emmanuelle Lafont NUMTECH 6 allée Allan Turing BP 30242 63175 AUBIERE Cedex -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Making Hardware Rendering Look Good--Do I need a new video card?
Are there two different coincident surfaces there? If not--you guarantee that there isn't, then my suggestion is to look at some of the hardware rendering options that can be added such as two-sided lights, etc. Look in the html documentation. David I'm having trouble using hardware rendering of a parametric surface (an adaptation of Bruce Land's net) in openDX--for lack of better words, it just looks plain ugly. See the attachments for the piece of the net that's giving us trouble and a comparison of how software and hardware rendering look on this machine. My set-up includes a duel Xeon 3.0 gHz processor, 4 gigs of RAM, a PCI express bus, and an nVidia GeForce PCX 5750 video card. We are considering upgrading to a high end video card designed for scientific visualization such as the 3DLabs Wildcat Realism 800. If using a new video card won't improve things, we won't waste the money. What cards are some of you using for scientific visualization? How can we make this look better? Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this is part of a figure for a paper that we need to send off for publication ASAP. P.S. We need to use hardware rendering because the macro we are using to do stereo images stops working when changed from hardware to software rendering mode. Thanks for taking a look, Abbye McEwen Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology The University of Texas at Dallas -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] boxing colormap from Autograyscale
You need to change the color of the Annotation parts of the Colorbar. If you open the CDB for Colorbar, you should see the controls for changing their colors. Look at the docs for Colorbar for more info. David Hi all I'm using autograyscale to form an image of 2D data. The colormap coming from autograyscale is the input for colorbar. through Collect the colorbar is merged with the Autograyscale mapped data to for the final output image. As I use a white background, I'd like to put a frame on the edges colorbar. Can anyone suggest the way to do that? Cheers Michele -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Bug?
To do hardware rendering in with dx script, you must add Options before sending to Display. myImage = Options(rendering mode, hardware); Display(myImage, camera); Are you using a 64 bit OS with this system? If so, I'd bet that somewhere a long vs int problem is causing this. David Ulrich Ölmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not an advanced DX user therefore I know nothing about the scripting possibilities you are using. In the networks I build in the visual program editor I use the 'image' module to produce the graphics. Doing so an 'image' window opens when the program is run. If I choose 'Options -- Rendering Options...' in the menu I can choose between software and hardware rendering. I encountered strange black lines comparable to yours before when I switched from one to the other and reexecuted the visualization network. Would be interesting to know if this resolves your problem! And it would perhaps explain why other people with other graphics hardware do not see this black line. Greetings to Heidelberg Ulrich Oelmann I looks as if you are right, it is a rendering problem. One strange thing is that when I start DX in interactive mode, I do not see the diagonal line (but the color of the square is white). Then when I open the Rendering Options window, choose Software Rendering (i.e. do nothing because it is the default) and Execute Once to redisplay, the diagonal line is there. Switching to hardware rendering gives the picture without diagonal (and the color is changed to blue). But I do not know how I can force hardware rendering from within dx/script (I have tried several things which did not work). Maybe this indicates that some libraries for hardware rendering are not found by dx/script? Hmm, maybe I should face now the task of interfacing my PDE solver to the GUI-DX via DXlink... I'll ask some questions in a separate message. Thank you, Nicolas. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
RE: [opendx-users] Installing New Fonts on Windows OpenDX (Viz, Inc Version)
This is not a problem finding the file, but a problem with the file itself. I would say that the way that you uncompressed the file has corrupted it somehow. What software did you use to uncompress it--I'd suggest trying to use something else. David Hi David, I have tried typing in the name of the font, but I get this Error: Text: Invalid data: 1st item in 'connections' component (171862130) is not between 0 and 231 / file 'C:\Program Files\OpenDX\urw\Dingbats.dx' line 181 / as font file Any suggestions? Thanks! Sum Yee Lai Hewlett Packard (541) 715-0848 -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Bug?
I tested this on MacOS X and don't see any problem. What bit-depth do you have your X-server set to? David Hello, I have posted about this problem before, but without any answer. I assume this is a bug in my version of DX (04.03.0002 from Debian/testing). Could someone confirm that my observation is correct? -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Runtime loadables on a Mac
I would suggest getting the autoconf macros we developed and look at them. They help quite a bit when looking at building loadable modules. Even if you don't use autoconf, at least you can look at all the flags needed in the acinclude.m4 file. David Has anyone gotten runtime loadable modules to work on a Mac? I have several that I want to port, and wondered if there are any specific instructions or gotchas before I start. I'm using the Viz, Inc., Mac build of OpenDX 4.3.2. My Mac is a PowerBook G4 running OS X version 10.3.4. Thanks, Joel -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Memory Problem
You probably need to add more physical memory to your machine. David Hi! Unfortunately this doesn't help. The first Line in the message Windows show allway: Memory cache will use 324 MB (20 for small items, 304 for large) independent of the -memory option I give. Any more ideas? Thanks in advance, Bernd. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Memory Problem
You need to give full info when you do this then. Which OS are you operating on. What are your user limits on the system. Which version of OpenDX are you running. David There is 1GB memory available, so I can't see why OpenDX just uses 324 MB Bernd. -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
RE: [opendx-users] image rendering - antialias and line width
Use UpdateCamera on the output of the camera from Image. With it, you can change the camera's size. David Well, it does work, but (probably due to Xfree) the resolution is the one on the screen. thanks anyway giulio -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] image rendering - antialias and line width
Martin, I just dug through a whole bunch of this for the ExportPS module I wrote. It actually is the fact that any off screen rendering cannot support the OpenGL rendering. It must be rendered on screen (no code for offscreen OpenGL support has been written). So often what has to happen is the updated Camera and Object have to be supplied to Display and then the ReadImageWindow module has to be used to write the resultant image. David On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 12:03, Giulio Antonutto wrote: I am connecting 'option module' to 'image module' with: attribute, value rendering mode, hardware antialias, lines line width, 2 and the image looks correct on the sceen (openGL). Now I would like to save it in a much higher resolution and to do that I am using the option 'allow rendering' on the image control panel. Unfortunately the resulting image has not antialias and the lines are 1 pixel thin. I wonder if the problem is DXROOT/lib/dxfSaveCurrentImage.net. This is the macro that's secretly used to 'Allow Rerendering' then save. It extracts the previously rendered object from cache using the GetScene module (to which users don't have access) and provides that as input to the Render module. Maybe the object that is cached by the Image module doesn't have Options saved inside? That would mean that GetScene isn't supplying them to Render. Hmmm. Martin -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Isn't 4GB enough RAM for OpenDX?
So I guess I don't know how much dx is using of your 4 GB, but when
you get screen subdivision failings--that usually indicates that the
renderer is trying to render too much information (I also have had
this happen when trying to render huge images). There is no reason to
pass such huge amounts of data to the renderer since there are a
limited number of pixels that can be used to display. For example--if
you have a 640x480 image window, try to keep the amount of data to be
rendered under 5-6MB. Anything above that and you will not be able to
discern the differences. So if you are sending the renderer things
that are say 500MB data objects, then you need to reduce their sizes
somehow (SimplifySurface, Speedy Glyphs, Reduce). There are other
techniques that can be helpful as well--and we are always available
for tech support at VIS, Inc.
David
Actually, I expect 4GB should be enough. However...
Even with 4GB on NetBSD there are a couple of data files I can't open
on my OpenDX *.net. Somebody said something about the per-process limit.
I get this...among others...
ERROR: Image: Display: Out of memory: Screen subdivision failed
I reset the server and get the same again. The NetBSD gurus said I might
look into sysctl. So...
From man sysctl I find I have like so...
snip
NetBSD 1.6.2_RC3 June 6, 19936
baal: {5} sysctl proc
proc.curproc.corename = %n.core
proc.curproc.rlimit.cputime.soft = unlimited
proc.curproc.rlimit.cputime.hard = unlimited
proc.curproc.rlimit.filesize.soft = unlimited
proc.curproc.rlimit.filesize.hard = unlimited
proc.curproc.rlimit.datasize.soft = 134217728
proc.curproc.rlimit.datasize.hard = 1073741824
proc.curproc.rlimit.stacksize.soft = 2097152
proc.curproc.rlimit.stacksize.hard = 33554432
proc.curproc.rlimit.coredumpsize.soft = unlimited
proc.curproc.rlimit.coredumpsize.hard = unlimited
proc.curproc.rlimit.memoryuse.soft = 3744112640
proc.curproc.rlimit.memoryuse.hard = 3744112640
proc.curproc.rlimit.memorylocked.soft = 1248037546
proc.curproc.rlimit.memorylocked.hard = 3744112640
proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.soft = 160
proc.curproc.rlimit.maxproc.hard = 532
proc.curproc.rlimit.descriptors.soft = 64
proc.curproc.rlimit.descriptors.hard = 1772
baal: {6}
/snip
Which, if any of the above should I tamper with to let OpenDX take fuller
advantage of my new glut of RAM? Or do the DX gurus opine that I had ought
to rebuild my kernel? And if so, what ought I change?
TIA,
Gan
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Re: [opendx-users] Autocolor tube on a formula
To compute a data value based on position, a = Mark(positions); b = Compute(sqrt(a.0**2+a.1**2+a.2**2)); Now do your AutoColor and Image. David Nils Smeds wrote: This is one way to do it, I think. There might be other better still. /Nils Never mind about the GLX. I figured that out. Had to enable it in XFree86. And thank you Nils! But I still have a question or two. Sorry if this sounds dumb but is getting late and my brain is tired. The supplied file newfoo.net from Nils colors nicely along the Z axis. But I am still needing to color outward spherically from a mid point at X,Y,Z = 0,0,0 rather than linearly along Z. It's 03:32 hours now and I think I'll give up for the night and go at it again tomorrow. Whoever has further advice, I'd be very pleased to receive it. TIA, Gan -- Mistera Sturno - Rarest Extinct Bird (+)__ Gan Uesli Starling ((__/)=-Kalamazoo, MI, USA `||` ++http://starling.us -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Re: Connection to X server failed - Error during initializatioin
This could be an OS limitation. You may need to investigate things
like ulimit and see what a single process can use for memory.
David
It appears that OpenDX was asking for more memory than the OS allows.
Once I set the memory option to 2010 and not anything higher, then
the error Connection to server baal failed goes away.
Strangely, though, 2010 MB seems not enough as I get this error on
execute...
Out of memory cannot expand data segment...
...which is the whole reason I bought 4GB of RAM in the first place.
But I think I saw somebody else's thread on this and I will look into
that now.
Thanks to all,
Gan
David Thompson wrote:
As a work around, you can always set the DXHOST environment
variable. Look at that for starters.
David
Okay, I have added baal as a 2nd alias after baal.amalekite.net in
my /etc/hosts so that I now only get...
ERROR - Connection to server baal failed - Error during initialization.
...and not any other connection error. I can do this...
baal: {1} ping -c 1 baal
PING baal.amalekite.net (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.155 ms
baal.amalekite.net PING Statistics
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.155/0.155/0.155/0.000 ms
baal: {2}
...so it's nothing to do with /etc/hosts. Yet all my other X programs
work as befofe. Is there some log in OpenDX which would tell me what
to look for next? why it fails to connect?
TIA
Gan
Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
Machine baal is the same as localhost. The /etc/hosts file
lists it as baal.amalekite.net but I can add baal, of course.
It had always connected before as localhost. All of my other
X utilities, blackbox, IceWM, mozilla, thunderbird, NEdit,
Sodipodi etc, etc...all work fine.
Gan
Mattijs Janssens writes:
Your machine (baal) is not in /etc/hosts?
Mattijs
Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
I made an oops in the first report.
Under the window which says...
ERROR -- Connection to server baal failed -- Error during initialization.
...is another window which says...
ERROR -- Unable to resolve baal, connecting locally.
...it never used to say...
ERROR -- Connection to server baal failed -- Connecting locally
...I had just misremembered that part. I have also attached my
XFree86 log if that is informative.
TIA
Gan
Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
I just upgraded my PC with a new Intel D875PBZ motherboard, a
3.2GHz P4 and 4 GB RAM. The sad part is that the upgrade cost
a fortune and I did it ONLY for OpenDX. And so far as I can
tell, OpenDX is the only program
that is having a problem with itor so it seems.
Everything EXCEPT OpenDX continues to work as before. But on
running a program in OpenDX I now get this error...
Connection to server baal failed - Error during initialization
...whereas I had used to get...
Connection to server baal failed - Connecting locally
...and it would just work.
I have just uninstalled/reinstalled OpenDX on my NetBSD
1.6.2_RC4 box to no better result. It does the same.
What to do next???
Thanks,
Gan
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Re: [opendx-users] Re: Connection to X server failed - Error during initializatioin
As a work around, you can always set the DXHOST environment variable.
Look at that for starters.
David
Okay, I have added baal as a 2nd alias after baal.amalekite.net in
my /etc/hosts so that I now only get...
ERROR - Connection to server baal failed - Error during initialization.
...and not any other connection error. I can do this...
baal: {1} ping -c 1 baal
PING baal.amalekite.net (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.155 ms
baal.amalekite.net PING Statistics
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.155/0.155/0.155/0.000 ms
baal: {2}
...so it's nothing to do with /etc/hosts. Yet all my other X programs
work as befofe. Is there some log in OpenDX which would tell me what
to look for next? why it fails to connect?
TIA
Gan
Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
Machine baal is the same as localhost. The /etc/hosts file
lists it as baal.amalekite.net but I can add baal, of course.
It had always connected before as localhost. All of my other
X utilities, blackbox, IceWM, mozilla, thunderbird, NEdit,
Sodipodi etc, etc...all work fine.
Gan
Mattijs Janssens writes:
Your machine (baal) is not in /etc/hosts?
Mattijs
Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
I made an oops in the first report.
Under the window which says...
ERROR -- Connection to server baal failed -- Error during initialization.
...is another window which says...
ERROR -- Unable to resolve baal, connecting locally.
...it never used to say...
ERROR -- Connection to server baal failed -- Connecting locally
...I had just misremembered that part. I have also attached my
XFree86 log if that is informative.
TIA
Gan
Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
I just upgraded my PC with a new Intel D875PBZ motherboard, a
3.2GHz P4 and 4 GB RAM. The sad part is that the upgrade cost a
fortune and I did it ONLY for OpenDX. And so far as I can tell,
OpenDX is the only program
that is having a problem with itor so it seems.
Everything EXCEPT OpenDX continues to work as before. But on
running a program in OpenDX I now get this error...
Connection to server baal failed - Error during initialization
...whereas I had used to get...
Connection to server baal failed - Connecting locally
...and it would just work.
I have just uninstalled/reinstalled OpenDX on my NetBSD
1.6.2_RC4 box to no better result. It does the same.
What to do next???
Thanks,
Gan
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`||`
++http://starling.us
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Re: [opendx-users] Changing Help Location to online HTML docs
This is already the case. See http://opendx.npaci.edu/docs/html/pages/usrgu018.htm David Hello - I was wondering if it is possible to make the Help tab invoke an HTML browser pointing to the online HTML help (which seems to be much more extensive). Any suggestions? Would it be possible to make a change in help location permanent as part of the installation or build process? Is there a reason that the older online documentation is the default? Thanks for all the help both now and in the past. Best - Ken -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] socket bufsize mismatch on SuSE 9.1
You can ignore these. What version of DX did you compile? David Hi, I have compiled dx from the current sources on SuSE 9.1 32bit PC with dynamic libraries. Worked fine, but when I load an example, I usually get popup windows with 'SOCKET bufsize mismatch: send/rcv buffer' and a number. The samples seem to run anyway. -1- can I ignore these messages or how do they affect the operation of dx? -2- how can I get rid of these errors? Thanks a lot for any hints, Wolfgang -- Dr. Wolfgang Braun Paul-Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics Hausvogteiplatz 5-7 D-10117 Berlin office: +49-(0)30-20377-366 bessy: +49-(0)30-6392-3436 mobile: +49-(0)160-99882210 fax : +49-(0)30-20377-201 -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Outboard problems in DX 4.1.3
It is fixed in cvs as of about a month ago. If you have to have outboard modules, get the latest cvs and compile it. My suggestion as always is to build loadable modules since they tend to be faster (no latency when starting and shutting down). David I am not sure whether the users' mailing list is the correct one to pose this question: I have written several outboard modules that worked fine with DX 4.1.3, but produce an error connection to localhost failed when compiled and used with 4.2.0, 4.3.0 or 4.3.2. Is this a known problem with a known solution? In the archive I found a posting by someone of 2002 with a similar problem (though that person didn't contrast behaviour with older versions) to which a possible solution was posted that involved changes to the DX source: http://opendx.npaci.edu/mail/opendx-dev/2002.07/msg00021.html Those changes seem to 'go back' to 4.1.3 code, but I suppose questions as to why that code has been changed into a form that some people think is worse than the old (and kept in the new form until today) are better asked in the developers' list... -- Urs Enke [EMAIL PROTECTED] High-Performance Computing Center for Computing and Communication RWTH Aachen University -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] how to size and color scalar glyphs with different data sets
Ooh, this is the problem with using the general importer. It creates a separate field for each of the variables. If it constructed a separate component for each that would make this problem easier to solve--but I digress. You want to a = Select(0) b = Select(1) c = Rename(a, data, radius) d = Replace(b, c) e = AutoColor(d) f = Mark(e, radius) g = AutoGlyph(f) Image(g) Sorry if this is too scripty, but it's easier than trying to draw all those lines. David Hi, I have a data set described by a general header file that is included below. The data are a bunch of unstructured 3-d points and all I want to do is create glyphs with the size set by the 'radius' component and color by the 'species' component. I can size and color by one component but I can't do the combination. I thought I saw this before on the list but of course I can't find it now. I thought I was getting the hang of DX but apparently ... any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Jon. *** Header file *** file = S:/Projects/Viz/CyberCell/Data-09_2004-09-07/data_101.dat points = 14423 format = ascii interleaving = field field = locations, radius, species structure = 3-vector, scalar, scalar type = float, int, int end *** Data file *** 1.327666e+02 2.445515e+02 2.533560e+02 2 2 1.337666e+02 2.449611e+02 2.580994e+02 2 2 1.287666e+02 2.632022e+02 2.369761e+02 2 2 1.327666e+02 2.654938e+02 2.563728e+02 2 2 1.325667e+02 2.604992e+02 2.589639e+02 2 2 ... -- Jon I Johansson * Research Computing Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Computing and Network Services Tel.: (780) 492-9304* University of Alberta Fax.: (780) 492-1729* Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
[opendx-users] font2dx now available
Wanted to comment that Jerry Hagon has been kind enough to release his font conversion utility. It is now available from www.opendx.org for download. So if you're ready to use that special font that you use in all your other illustrations, pick it up--convert the font and add it to DX. David -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Compiling Only DX lib in MS Windows
Look at VisualDX from the 4.3.2 source. In there, there is a project for building the libraries as dlls. David You did'nt understand me. I don't want to use Cygwin. I have C++Builder for windows, I want to compile dx lib only to use them as dll in my programs. Is it possible? On Wednesday 28 July 2004 11:47, Kent Eschenberg wrote: Is it possible to compile dx library in MS Windows? www.opendx.org = Downloads (Windows Cygwin 1.3.22) -- Renato Gomes Damas -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Compiling Only DX lib in MS Windows
It already is removed if you do the native windows compile from MSVC that's provided. Of course the GUI can't build. In CVS today, I'm checking in some new stuff that will create a threaded exec that will let you write some pretty minimal DXLink applications within C# -- an example is provided (dxconcsharp). David --On July 29, 2004 12:33:03 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You did'nt understand me. I don't want to use Cygwin. I have C++Builder for windows, I want to compile dx lib only to use them as dll in my programs. Is it possible? I *think* the problem with that is that it is almost impossible to remove, from DX, its calls to the X Window System. Does anyone know if that is the case? Kent -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] How to display polydisperse spheres?
Import-Mark(size) - AutoGlyph Then you can use the scale and ratio options of AutoGlyph to change appropriately. David Greetings, I'm following this list for quite a while (basically since I started using dx 3 month ago). I really like this program, but now I've got a problem I couldn't solve so far. I'm sure there is a very simple way of doing it, but I can't see it right now. I've created a program that is generating a box filled (not tightly packed) with spheres of randoms sizes. Its output is of the following structure (assuming 100 spheres): object 1 class array type float rank 1 shape 3 items 100 data follows -0.6902 -5.5948 0. [x,y,z coordinate] ... object 2 class array type float rank 0 items 100 data follows 0. [radius] ... attribute dep string positions object data class field component positions value 1 component size value 2 end How can I display these spheres on their correct positions and with the correct radius according to the size component? At the moment, I'm using Import-Glyph-Image which displays the spheres at the correct position but with the same radius (r=1 IIRC). Do I have to choose a diffent output for my program? (Wouldn't be a problem if so.) Thanks for your help, Kai -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
RE: [opendx-users] How to fixed the max values in Colormap?
If you got our book, you'd see that this is much easier. If you are
able to import the whole data set but not able to color the whole
data set (memory problems), then just feed the whole data set into
the min value of the AutoColor module (or Colormap) and it will fix
the min and max for you to the whole data set not the single slice.
OpenDX: Paths to Visualization covers this topic.
David
Fawen,
At 06:43 AM 10/07/04, you wrote:
I appreciate your help. My problem is: if I color-map the whole data set
before the animation occurs, I've get memory problem. I know the range
of my data, is there any module that can be used to define the known
min/max values for color-map?
Just type the relevant values (in the units of your data) into the
parameters 'Min' and 'Max' of {AutoColor}.
If you want to get fancy you can define your own color map (I think
the QickStart Guide shows how to do this). This is handy if, for
example, you want orange/red to represent data that exceeds a
critical value.
Regards,
Allen H. Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
Tel: +61 2 9385 3916 Fax: +61 2 9663 2108
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Re: [opendx-users] Are OpenDX manuals worth printing?
The current manuals are only available as HTML, that's where all the updates have been. Of course they really aren't printable. The 3.1.4 manuals are a good start if you're looking for hard-copy, but since some things have changed, you'd best look at the html docs before asking for help. Plus there's a search engine with the new HTML manuals. David Hi all, I just installed OpenDX and am looking for some tutorials/manuals. In the OpenDX site, I have found some manuals in PDF format (quickstart guide, user guide etc.), but they refer to Version 3, Release 1, Modification 4, and I have the OpenDX 4.3.2. Are there any newer manuals, preferably in a printable format (PS or PDF)? Or there are no significant changes between the mentioned versions, and I can use these (old) manuals with newer versions of OpenDX? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Zoom In/Out
You really need to go through the tutorial or purchase a copy of our book OpenDX: Paths to Visualization. Simplistic questions like this will probably not get much of a response from the mailing list. David Hi, How can I do image zoom in/out in OpenDX ? Which module should I used ? Thanks. Regards, KC -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Formatting 4-vectors.
Are you asking to select a single element from the 4-vector to send to Format? If so, use compute with a statement like a.n where n is the number of the element you want -- for example a.0 will give you the first element in the vector. David I have a field in which the positions component is a 4-vector, ie each data component has associated with it four numbers in the positions component. I want to selected a single component from the positions component and format it for output. So far I have extracted the positions component from the field and used select to choose the item I want to output to screen, but the format module does not like the 4-vector. Any ideas? Thanks John Vaul -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Streamlines and Pick
You want to look at using Get, Set, and the List modules. Look for examples with these. David Hello. I'm new in Opendx. I'm using the Pick function to define the starting point of streamlines. Is there a simple way to accumulate the Pick positions so the image shows all the streamlines, not only the last one. Thanks -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] How to change the colorbar label color?
Set the annotation to {frame, labels, ticks} then set colors to
{clear, yellow, red}. That should let you change them--does
this help?
Hi all,
I am new to OPEN DX. Is there anybody know how to change the label color
on colorbar?
Thanks much in advance!
Fawen Zheng
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Re: [opendx-users] Building loadable modules under Mac OSX
Which version of gcc are you using? You can look at the symbol table of your loadable module with nm and determine what symbols are in there. When I first was writing modules for MacOS X, the compiler used libtool for the linking and the compiler inserted the underscore (_) on all function names--that's why DXEntry became _DXEntry as the load symbol. Maybe that has now changed. David The short path here is because I am invoking dx from the command line, with: dx -mdf ./FancyRibbon.mdf I did also check to see if changing the LOADABLE line in the mdf file to the complete full path would make a difference. I get the same error message just with the complete path now instead of just a relative path, i.e. that DX cannot find the entry point DXEntry in the module. Still think that another linker switch is needed to make DXEntry the actual entry point for the module. Thanks, Norm -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Building loadable modules under Mac OSX
I would say that the biggest problem probably lies within your mdf file. You should define the full path to the loadable module instead of a relative path ./FancyRibbon. David Hello DX'ers, I am attempting to get the FancyRibbon module compiled under Mac OSX. Up to this point, I have not been fully successful. After playing with the linker switches for a while, I can build the source successfully, but I get an error when DX tries to load the module. Has anyone successfully built a loadable module for OSX? Here are the details: OSX 10.2.8, Dec 2002 Developer Tools, VIS, Inc build of DX 4.3.0 I get the following error on load: 0: ERROR: MDF file: Invalid data: cannot find entry point 'DXEntry' in file './FancyRibbon' / module FancyRibbon I compiled the source with the following makefile : * DXARCH = macos BASE = /Applications/OpenDX/OpenDX.app/Contents/dx DXCC = cc INCLUDES = -I$(BASE)/include DXCFLAGS = -no-cpp-precomp -dynamic -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-common -fPIC LINK = ld CHECK = -bundle_loader $(BASE)/bin_macos/dxexec LDFLAGS = -bundle -flat_namespace $(CHECK) -e _DXEntry LIBS = -L$(BASE)/lib_macos -L/sw/lib -lm -ldl FancyRibbon:FancyRibbon.c userFancyRibbon.c $(DXCC) $(INCLUDES) $(DXCFLAGS) -c FancyRibbon.c $(DXCC) $(INCLUDES) $(DXCFLAGS) -c userFancyRibbon.c $(LINK) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o FancyRibbon userFancyRibbon.o FancyRibbon.o /usr/lib/bundle1.o rm FancyRibbon.o rm userFancyRibbon.o userFancyRibbon.c: FancyRibbon.mdf $(BASE)/bin/mdf2c -m FancyRibbon.mdf userFancyRibbon.c * The entry point is defined on the linker command line, but it does not appear to have stuck, making me think something else is wrong. It the underscore is omitted before DXEntry, the linker complains that it cannot find DXEntry. Any ideas as to what to change or try? Thanks, Norm -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Princeton Ocean Model, calculating depth from Sigma
Steve, You don't quite understand the notation. I think what you are looking for is [a.x, a.y, a.z*b/22]. The input for b is the marked data component for temp. Since your grid is the same for both, then the order at which the data is stored is the same (typically). So when dx starts doing its calculations in row order then the a.z and temp should be at the same position on the grid. With that calculation, you then Unmark back to positions (now in 3d) and then use a Shade module (to help show the relief). However, a lot of times with visualizations, you may have to scale your Z to make it even look good which is what Rubbersheet does. David So I'm guessing that I'd use Make3DField then to add a third dimension? I'm finding no documentation of Make3DField. Has anybody used this to create a 3D array out of a 2D array where each vertical slice (Dimension Z) is a copy of the original 2D array? I see the Stack module and I've given it a try too but it isn't cooperating (or I guess I'm not). I can't see where to tell it that I want the 3rd dimension to have 22 levels. What I want is to multiply a(x,y,z) by b(x,y) where b(x,y) is the depth at grid point (x,y). It really isn't a vector so I don't think mag() applies. I think that if I can construct a 3D version of the depth array then I'd just do: [a.x, a.y, a.z * b.z / 22 ] Thanks very much for your help, Regards, Steve -- __ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling GroupEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 208 Libby Hallhttp://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469Phone: (207) 581-4302 -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] cell-based data
Depends on what it is. If it is a custom tool that would just be used by a few--OpenDX.org can host modules (there are a few there already). If it is something that could benefit just about every OpenDX user, it is possible to add it to the code base--but would have to be approved by the main developers as well as copyright given away. David Thanks Chris - ShowBoundary was just what i needed to complete the picture! As well, your other advice about invalid connections (this is a nice tool that I could never get AVS to do) is greatly appreciated. So, is there a module repository for those who write custom modules and would like to contribute them to the cause? cheers, Karl Chris Pelkie wrote: Welcome to DX-land, then! I think you are looking for ShowBoundary which puts a polygonal face on a volumetric data set. You can fiddle with the opacity of the boundary by adding a Color module afterward and only changing the opacity (existing colors will be unaffected). Or add a Colormap, adjust the opacity curve and hook up the rightmost output of Colormap to the rightmost input of Color to drive the opacity by data. To knock out blocks, create an invalid connections component. This can be done either via Color/Colormap where Colormap excludes values outside a range (automatically), or Include (also range-based), or by algorithmically (Compute) generating an array of bytes (1=invalid true, 0=invalid false), one per connection element (voxel, here). Make this array 'dep' 'connections' (use Options to add this attribute to your array), then Replace it onto your field as the invalid connections. You may find, as I did long ago, that volume rendering in DX leaves much to be desired. First and foremost to me, no perspective rendering (ugh). So, to see interior voxels, use Isolate followed by ShowBoundary and play with the Isolate value. In conjunction with the invalids, you should be able to get some interesting pics. On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 20:51 America/New_York, Karl Pohlmann wrote: Hi, I'm new to OpenDX (though I've got a long history with AVS 5) and after going through all the tutorials and examples, I'm still having trouble visualizing my data set. I've got model results on a regular (finite difference) 3-D mesh and I'd like to visualize them as voxels, that is as connection-dependent so that values are assigned to the entire cell, not to the vertices of the cell. In fact, the data are cell-based cubes so they should look like solid bricks in the visualization. Now, I've been able to generate visualizations that are pretty much want I want with the exception that the colors on the cell faces are not opaque. Therefore, when the looking at the visualization, there is enough transparency that one cannot discern the colors of cell faces closest to the viewer. Any thoughts on how best to treat these data? I'd also like to cut away at the mesh by removing bricks of a certain value (sort of like isosurface, but without interpolation. Thanks in advance, Karl Karl Pohlmann Associate Research Hydrogeologist Division of Hydrologic Sciences Desert Research Institute 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119 Phone: 702-862-5485 Fax: 702-862-5427 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dri.edu/People/karl/ - - - __o - - - - _`\,_ - - - - - (_)/ (_) ___ Chris Pelkie Scientific Visualization Producer 622 Rhodes Hall, Cornell Theory Center Ithaca, NY 14853 -- Karl Pohlmann Associate Research Hydrogeologist Division of Hydrologic Sciences Desert Research Institute 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119 Phone: 702-862-5485Fax: 702-862-5427 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dri.edu/People/karl/ - - - __o - - - - _`\,_ - - - - - (_)/ (_) -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Errors importing file into Opendx....please tell me what I am doing wrong!!
The bufsize mismatch is just a warning and can be ignored. It is some code that lets you know that socket bufsize's are not matching but does not cause any kind of error message. The problem you are having with Import is relative to the 3rd message you report ERROR: Import: internal error: unspecified error in Import Is your data file really a dx file? What does the first line in the file look like? David -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] How to remove Welcome window
Since you are using the dx startup process, dx, every-time you click Open or New program, it is going to shutdown the current visual programming setup and start a new one. You are better off using the File menu in the programming environment and selecting New or Open from there and then you won't get the splash screen. The other way that most users start dx when editing programs is to use dx -edit to start thus bypassing the startup window. There is no way to shutoff the welcome window. David Hi, Any option, eg -quiet, to avoid welcome window keep showing up ? I think it should show up once at DX startup, but not everytime I open a visual program. Kuang-Chun Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Hello loadable module
You must compile with the proper flags for a linux loadable module to make sure it links correctly add --shared -eDXEntry to the compile line. David -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
[opendx-users] New fonts for OpenDX now available
I would like to say thank you to Jerry Hagon from the Physics Centre, School of Natural Sciences, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne for his wonderful work in converting some copyleft fonts for OpenDX. They are now available for download at http://opendx.npaci.edu/bin/urwfonts.tgz. These fonts were converted from the Ghostscript source which is GNU licensed so we will have to keep them as a separate download. Jerry does have a script that can convert Type 1 Postscript fonts to the DX format and may be willing to help you convert a font you need--read the README included for more info. Please do not inundate him as this is a very special privilege. Thanks again Jerry! -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Execution with SIDE_EFFECTs
Going back and reading the documentation a bit on this, it appears that your assumption that adding SIDE_EFFECT results in the module always runs is correct. However, the assumption that the downstream modules assume that the output has changed is incorrect. A SIDE_EFFECT is exactly that. If the input to your new module getTime doesn't change then the cache assumes that the output will also not change; however the module will run to produce the SIDE_EFFECT. It is doing what it was designed to do and you will have to tell compute to not cache so it always looks up the new value from your module. David I just tried that and it has no effect... Somehow, the Compute is not being executed, even though its input is clearly changing. If I change Compute's output to no caching, it forces execution, but that shouldn't be necessary, if I'm understanding things correctly. Joel -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] Execution with SIDE_EFFECTs
Have you tried setting the output of getTime to cache No results. I'm betting that Compute is seeing getTime as not changing so it cache's the input value. David I have written a small inboard module, getTime, that returns the current system clock, using the gettimeofday() call. The module is marked as having side effects, so it is called on every execution, as expected. The problem is the downstream Compute. I want to use the time of day as a random number seed. Even though the time value is changing, the Compute is *not* being reexecuted, so I'm getting the same random numbers every time. The following also shows the problem. In this net, the first value printed by Echo changes each time, but the second remains fixed. [getTime] | +--+-+ || | [Compute(a)] || [Echo] I can force the Compute to execute by setting the output caching to No results, but I thought that wouldn't be necessary here? I have verified this behavior in verions 4.3.2 and 4.2.0, both on Solaris 8. Am I missing something? Thanks, Joel === Joel Richardson, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Jackson Laboratory Phone: (207) 288-6435 600 Main Street Fax:(207) 288-6132 Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 URL:www.informatics.jax.org === -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
[opendx-users] Proof prints of OpenDX book for sale
VIS, Inc. has three proof print copies of OpenDX: Paths to Visualization that we are willing to sell at a discount. We've put one of them up on eBay at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3597976382. If you'd like the book but didn't want to pay full price, now is the time to jump on these. The proof prints are in good shape, the covers are not coated, the trim may be a little off (but does not hamper reading), and there may be a page or two loose. These were printed on different paper stocks so we could decide on which paper was best for our final runs. I just need to clean up my office and thought somebody could use them. The highest bidder gets choice of one or all 3, if the bidder just wants one--I'll offer others to the next lowest bidder. David -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] irix64 port using gcc
I don't think anybody has done any work with gcc 64 bit compiling with OpenDX. It was primarily ported with Irix's native compilers by Randy oh so long ago. If you start going through it with a debugger and find the problems and get things working. Please submit your work to the tree. David -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] irix64 port using gcc
You might try turning the signal handling off when starting DX. I've had problems on other OS's where that was the only fix until the vendor fixed the signal libraries. David David Thompson wrote: I don't think anybody has done any work with gcc 64 bit compiling with OpenDX. It was primarily ported with Irix's native compilers by Randy oh so long ago. If you start going through it with a debugger and find the problems and get things working. Please submit your work to the tree. Tried the resident dbx but that didn't give any information. gdb6.0 in 32 and 64 bit mode both complain about some unknown signal '?' and don't do anything. Only funny thing I can think of is the fact that the port number (on the 'Connect' menu when connecting to a running server) is displayed as '0'. Cycling one up takes it to 1901, cycling one down brings it to 1900. So guess it tries the correct port but just the display on that box is not correctly initialized. Any ideas on how to tackle this? As said OpenDX compiled with 32bit gcc producing 32bit code works fine. (we normally run things with the 64bit gcc and never had any problems with the code generated by it so I don't suspect a compiler problem) Regards, Mattijs -- /*-*\ | === Mattijs Janssens| | \\/ Development Engineer| | \\ /| | \\/ Nabla Ltd. | |\\ / The Mews, Picketts Lodge| | \\/ Picketts Lane, Salfords,| | F ieldSurrey RH1 5RG. | | O perationTel: +44 (0)1293 821272 | | A nd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | M anipulation URL: http://www.Nabla.co.uk | \*-*/ -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] pick
You must put a Pick module on the canvas in order to use it. Please see the samples that deal with Pick. David What do I have to do in order to have pick enabled. Which additional modules (pick) do I need to have installed. Where do I get them (aix/linux)? The menu item is grey out in my installation. __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
Re: [opendx-users] stack segfaults with tiffs
Can you provide a small demo that shows the problem that others could test? David David Thompson wrote: Here's something to try. ReadImage - Post(positions) - CollectSeries - Stack - Isosurface. If this solves the problem, please file a bug report. This does not fix the problem :-(. I'm very sure that it is the stack module now, if I put a describe module before the stack module, it is still executed, if I put it behind it it's not. Any other ideas? Cheers Jochen -- . David L. Thompson Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]5515 Skyway Drive, Missoula, MT 59804 Phone : (406)756-7472
