Hi Simon, In Earth Sciences, and Geophysics in particular, netCDF is king. There is a damn fast and good program called Fledermaus (http://www.qps.nl/display/fledermaus) that creates awesome 3D displays of grid surfaces (and some 3D solid objects as well). However, it's a commercial product that to make it a bit worst, has its own non-public format.
However, it has a free viewer that let us visualize and get dizzy with the speed at which it renders its scenes. The good thing is that I managed to partially crack the format (which is half documented) and I'm able to create fledermaus objects that can be seen with the free viewer. All that is done with only a couple of mouse clicks when using my program, Mirone (w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/mirone) The free viewer is here if you want to try it (the binary needs to be in the path) w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/mirone/win32_iview3d670.exe it would be fantastic if a Fledermaus type capability would be added to your viewer. Joaquim Sábado, 17 de Maio de 2014 21:23:49 UTC+1, Tim Holy escreveu: > > Maximum intensity projection would be nice to have. > > Also, really fast 2d plotting of large datasets would not be a bad thing. > Cairo + Gtk is not bad (and Gtk is quite a lot better than Tk in terms of > speed), but it's also not all that impressive either. > > --Tim > > On Saturday, May 17, 2014 09:51:37 AM Simon Danisch wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently in the planning phase for my GSOC 3D Visualization > project, > > which also means, that I need to define what the most important > > visualization forms are. > > I must admit, that I haven't done much plotting myself, so I would have > to > > guess what the really important bits are. > > Instead of slavishly <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/slavishly.html> > > > imitating Matlabs plot functions with some mix-ins from my side, I > thought > > we can do better, by getting feedback off the people, that actually plan > to > > use 3D plotting in Julia! > > It would help me a lot, if you could specify what you need exactly in > great > > detail. > > Just tell me what you hate about current solutions, what features you > > really like, the format of your data, how you like to work, etc... > > Like this, I can find out what needs to be done in order to visualize > your > > data, rate the importance and difficulty and than decide in which order > I > > implement the different plotting capabilities. > > Any feedback, ideas and comments are welcome! > > > > Best wishes, > > Simon >
