Hi Marius & Bill,
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Bill Hibbard wrote:
> Can any active VisAD programmers suggest tools
> to help define J3D matrices?
>
As part of VisBio, I wrote some helper methods to zoom, translate and pan a
display. They take care of applying the correct 4x4 matrix to the projection
control (using DisplayImpl.make_matrix). You can find the code here:
http://www.loci.wisc.edu/trac/java/browser/trunk/components/visbio/src/loci/visbio/view/ViewHandler.java?rev=5093#L124
Cheers,
Curtis
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:50 AM, <hiding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Marius,
>
> We are all glad that you like VisAD. Your questions
> are excellent. Here is what I know about answers to
> them (but cavat emptor, I haven't written any code
> for 6 years):
>
> 1. a) Images are rendered via texture maps, and
> Java3D texture maps require values for each of
> red, green and blue (and alpha) at each pixel.
>
> 1. b) Java3D does not support hardware color
> tables. (I first wrote Vis5D on the Stellar GS 1000,
> which did support hardware color lookup tables,
> missed that capability in most later graphics
> hardware).
>
> 2. You should be able to do this via the setMatrix()
> method of the ProjectionControlJ3D you get from
> DisplayImplJ3D.getProjectionControl(). Of course,
> you've got to figure out how to set a user view point
> as a 4x4 matrix.
>
> Can any active VisAD programmers suggest tools
> to help define J3D matrices?
>
> 3. Applications would need to keep track of
> progress through a sequence of fetch, analyze and
> display data. It would be nice if the display "please
> wait" would give percent done, but sorry to say it
> doesn't.
>
> 4. a) Perhaps the Unidata folks can help with this
> (or perhaps Tom W)?
>
> 4. b) Jeff McWhirter recently created the CachedFlatField
> and related "Cache" classes, that I think are better than
> the olf FileFlatField. Hopefully he or someone can
> comment on these.
>
> Best regards,
> Bill Hibbard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marius Schmidt <mariuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: visad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 6:14 am
> Subject: [visad] HowTo Questions: gray scale, shader gray scale, viewers
> position, process monitor and netcdf access to large files
>
> Hi again VisAD community,
>
> as my work progresses I fall more and more in love with the ease of use
> of the VisAD library :-). But for today I do not only have laud but also
> a bunch of questions I hope you can help me with:
>
> 1. Gray Scale:
> a) I have learned from the tutorial and documentation, that I have to
> create a custom lookup table to provide a gray scale mapping using
> Display.RGB(A). If I only map to gray in a 3D display I was wondering,
> if internally 24 (32) bit texture are used nevertheless? If yes, is it
> possible to enforce the use of an 8-bit luminance texture instead to
> reduce memory consumption and allow bigger datasets uploaded to GPU memory?
>
> b) Before I started working with VisAD I experimented with some fragment
> shader based application of lookup tables as explained in some
> literature. I searched the library for the usage of Shader programms but
> did not find any. Am I guessing right that color table is applied to
> data before uploading it to the GPU? At which place might it be possible
> and a good idea to implement a shader based lookup table for real-time
> coloring of depictions (by only exchanging the lookup map stored as
> lookup texture in GPU memory and accessed by a fragment shader)?
>
> 2. Viewers position:
> I have not found a way yet to Setup the initial users view point viewing
> direction, I guess I overlooked something, can you help me out ?
>
> 3. Process monitor
> Some calculations or data fetching processes in VisAD take longer than a
> few seconds and I would like to display their progress using a process
> monitor showing the user, that there is still something going on. I have
> seen, that as soon as the display is up and there are calculations going
> on a "please wait" message is being displayed. But that does not work
> for initial pre-displayed processes like fetching and analyzing data of
> a bigger Netcdf dataset. Is there a hook to ask Visad how many percent
> of a job is already processed ?
>
> 4. Netcdf
> a) I have seen that there is Plain as a reader for NetCDF datasets. I
> transformed one of the dicom image sets available at the human visible
> project into netcdf format, but without attention to any convention like
> CF. Following the VerySimple and Simple example of the developers guide
> did not really worked for me, so I set the MathType, FunctionType and
> Set informations up manually and handed them over to a FlatField. Then I
> used Plain only to read the sample values from the netcdf file into the
> FlatField in reversed order. It works allright but I am wondering what
> to keep in mind, that the plain reader works innately. How do I have to
> prepare my NetCDF files, which conventions are known to Plain?
>
> b) I shall try to visualize some of the measuring results of the
> Coltrims experiment (for your interest:
> http://hsb.uni-frankfurt.de/web/research/atomic/coltrims/).
> Unfortunately the data files come in chunks of more than 10 GB each. I
> found that there are classes called VirtualData, FileFlatField, etc. and
> hope, that my guess is right. Are they are somehow intended to be used
> for accessing datasets that do not fit into memory? How do I utilize
> them for fast retrieving of slices in dimension of 500MB? I do not have
> the heart yet trying to access one of those files, because I did have
> not really understood, how to use them, and I do not want to freeze my
> system instantly :-D
>
> Best regards,
> Marius
>
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