Real-time is somewhat relative, but I have done some work tying DX-based visualizations to weather simulations while they are executing. This is in addition to post-processing tools. Given the complexity of the initialization and boundary conditions, I have only done tracking or monitoring not steering. However, this has been very useful for both quality control and early feature detection.
The weather forecasting work is discussed at http://www.research.ibm.com/weather with information about the visualization portion (papers and examples) available at http://www.research.ibm.com/weather/vis/w_vis.htm -------------------------- Lloyd A. Treinish Visual Analysis IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center P. O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 914-784-5038 (voice) 914-784-7667 (facsimile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/ Ruppert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 12/07/99 07:36:03 AM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [opendx-users] realtime data display? Hi everyone, I have a large simulation program which produces output data (irregular positions and velocity data) at a rate of a few points per second. I wonder if it is possible to have dx display these data and continuously update this display (i.e. have a "online 3D-display" of my data as they are created). I have browsed through most of the documentation but found no "obvious" way to do this. Most explanations and examples deal with the visualization of a fixed set of data from a file. I could, of course, create a file from my data, but this would limit my possibilities to interact with the simulation (i.e. parameters could only be modified for the next simulation run). The simulation side would be quite obvious: I could employ the DXLink facilities to start dx from the simulation and feed positions and data (and connections?) via DXLSetValue to one or more DXLInput modules on the dx side. What I am unsure about is the required structure on the dx side. Is any of the predefined modules able to "add" or "append" these data to the data accumulated so far? Or would I have to code a module myself to acomplish this? I am quite new to dx, and perhaps I am missing something obvious. Any help or hint would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Dieter Ruppert RTS GmbH Schwieberdingen/Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]
