[julia-users] [ANN] GLVisualize

[Simon Danisch]

I finally tagged a new version of GLVisualize with a lot of new goodies and 
overall improved stability.
For more information please see my blog post:

GLVisualize - a modern graphics platform for julia 


[Lets deprecate Julia-Users, so please answer on the discourse thread 
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Best,
Simon

Re: [julia-users] [ANN] GLVisualize

[Tom Breloff]

How exciting... congrats!  I've been following the progress... I hope I
find time to get my hands dirty with it soon.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Simon Danisch  wrote:

> Hi
>
> this is the first release of GLVisualize.jl
> , a 2D/3D visualization
> library completely written in Julia and OpenGL.
>
> You can find some crude documentation on glvisualize.com
> .
> I hope to improve the examples and the documentation in the coming weeks.
> The biggest problem for most people right now will be a slightly flaky
> camera and missing guides and labels.
> This is being worked on! If someone beats me to the guide/axis creation,
> I'd be very happy. This could be a fun project to get started with
> GLVisualize.
> Please feel free to open any issue concerning missing documentation,
> discrepancies  and
> bugs!
>
> Relation to GLPlot :
> GLPlot is now a thin wrapper for GLVisualize with a focus on plotting.
> Since I concentrated mostly on finishing GLVisualize, it's a reeally thin
> wrapper.
> It basically just forwards all calls to GLVisualize, and adds a
> boundingbox around the objects.
> In the future, it should offer some basic UI, automatic creation of
> axis/labels, screenshots and an alternative API that is more familiar to
> people that are coming from other plotting libraries (e.g. functions like
> surf, contourf, patches).
> If anyone has specific plans on how this could look like don't hesitate to
> open issues and PR's!
>
> Outlook:
> I'd like to make GLVisualize more independent of the rendering backend by
> using some backend agnostic geometry
> 
> representation.
> This will make it easier to integrate backends like FireRender
> , WebGL, Vulkan
>  (why Vulkan
> ),
> or some text based backends like PDF/SVG.
>
> Furthermore, I'd like to improve the performance and interaction
> possibilities.
>
> I have to thank the Julia Group for supporting me :) It's a pleasure to be
> a part of the Julia community!
>
> I'm looking forward to the great visualizations you'll create!
>
> Best,
> Simon Danisch
>

[julia-users] [ANN] GLVisualize

[Simon Danisch]

Hi

this is the first release of GLVisualize.jl 
, a 2D/3D visualization library 
completely written in Julia and OpenGL.

You can find some crude documentation on glvisualize.com 
.
I hope to improve the examples and the documentation in the coming weeks.
The biggest problem for most people right now will be a slightly flaky 
camera and missing guides and labels.
This is being worked on! If someone beats me to the guide/axis creation, 
I'd be very happy. This could be a fun project to get started with 
GLVisualize.
Please feel free to open any issue concerning missing documentation, 
discrepancies  and 
bugs!

Relation to GLPlot :
GLPlot is now a thin wrapper for GLVisualize with a focus on plotting. 
Since I concentrated mostly on finishing GLVisualize, it's a reeally thin 
wrapper. 
It basically just forwards all calls to GLVisualize, and adds a boundingbox 
around the objects. 
In the future, it should offer some basic UI, automatic creation of 
axis/labels, screenshots and an alternative API that is more familiar to 
people that are coming from other plotting libraries (e.g. functions like 
surf, contourf, patches).
If anyone has specific plans on how this could look like don't hesitate to 
open issues and PR's!

Outlook:
I'd like to make GLVisualize more independent of the rendering backend by 
using some backend agnostic geometry 
 
representation.
This will make it easier to integrate backends like FireRender 
, WebGL, Vulkan 
 (why Vulkan 
), 
or some text based backends like PDF/SVG.

Furthermore, I'd like to improve the performance and interaction 
possibilities.

I have to thank the Julia Group for supporting me :) It's a pleasure to be 
a part of the Julia community!

I'm looking forward to the great visualizations you'll create!

Best,
Simon Danisch