Re: [idvusers] ISL script examples please? (and dreams)

Hi Don, Brendon, et al.:

Re: virtual X server and IDV:

I've been investigating the TurboVNC/VirtualGL packages to see if I can get IDV 
to work properly on a server that does not run a real X server ... still in the 
preliminary stages.  If anyone else has tried, though, do let us know!

--Kevin

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[mailto:idvusers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Murray
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [idvusers] ISL script examples please? (and dreams)

Thanks for the clarifications, Brendon!  Nice work!

Don

On 8/28/13 1:44 PM, Brendon Hoch wrote:
> Don Murray wrote:
>> Hi Brendon-
>>
>> Thanks for this information.  Hopefully it will help others along.  A 
>> couple of questions/comments:
>>
>> - did you have to install the old Java 3D library to get this to work 
>> with Xvfb?  Kevin Tyle has been looking at this for supporting the 
>> IDV image generation in RAMADDA, so if you've found a solution 
>> without that, we should chat offline.
>
> I believe I used the "legacy" Java 3D library during the IDV install 
> process as recommended by previous users.  Nothing else special...
>
>> - You could do the annotation in ISL as well - it supports image and 
>> text overlays with the <overlay> tag.  You can control the font and 
>> background color of the text.  Is there a reason you are using 
>> convert instead?
>
> We use convert to caption much of our other image generation from 
> Gempak, so it was easier to recycle existing code.
>
>> - you can also create animated gifs with convert using the -loop option.
>
> Generating gifs (or animated gifs) didn't work with idv + Xvfb, only png.
>
> Another issue was a limitation based on our mapwall configuration.
> Previously, we used Imagemagick's "display" command for showing 
> imagery on a screen with the "-window root" option (clean, full screen 
> image without window borders).  This works fine with older flavors of 
> Linux that treat a quad-head graphics card with multiple monitors as 
> separate screens (0.0, 0.1, 0.2, etc).  Newer versions of Linux treat 
> multiple monitors as one big screen, so an alternative was needed.  
> I'm now using "feh" to display individual images in a multi-screen 
> environment.  It allows you to set exactly on your "screen" where you 
> want the image by specifying a size & offset using the -g option.  
> Based on our setup, feh worked better with individual gifs than animated gifs.
>
> Cheers,
> Brendon
>>
>> As Jeff McWhirter used to say - ISL is the most fully documented code 
>> in IDV. Glad you found it worked for you.
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/28/13 6:31 AM, Brendon Hoch wrote:
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> I've attached an isl script, shell script, and bundle that I've been 
>>> using for the past few months to generate a real time satellite 
>>> imagery loop for our mapwall display.  Some notes:
>>>
>>> - We're using Centos 5.8 64 bit with plans to move to CentOS 6.x in 
>>> the near future.
>>> - Script is scheduled for generation every 30 minutes at :14 & :44 
>>> to give enough time for satellite images to populate on ADDE servers.
>>> - We're using stock Xvfb for a display buffer.  Xvfb runs all the 
>>> time, you might need to create a startup script, which you should be 
>>> able to find examples of by searching the web based on your linux flavor.
>>> - Historically, 64 bit IDV has had issues generating gifs with Xvfb.
>>> But, it seemed to work ok for generating png files.  So, I convert 
>>> from png to gif using Imagemagick's convert command.  I also use 
>>> Imagemagick to add nice labels to the image.  I use gifsicle to 
>>> generate an animated gif.
>>> - I haven't tried generating .mov files because our mapwall display 
>>> doesn't use them, but the process should be similar.  The ISL 
>>> documentation is actually quite good (the hardest part is finding 
>>> it!)
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Brendon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>

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