[news.eclipse.gef3d] Re: AMP AGF3D Demo

[Miles Parker <milesparker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.. the panning / tracking handlers were something I really wanted 
as users can get lost trying to move around with the camera controls.

I just played around a bit more with the threading.. (I'm having a hard 
time pulling myself away from this to other tasks!)  -- the camera 
movements have that jerky quality because of the updating of agent 
movement. I think its cool to be able to see the agents updating during 
the camera moves, so its kind of a tradeoff. If you pause the model 
first I now have it working so the tranistions are smooth. The next 
thing to do is to play around with the number of steps between 
movements. Obviously there is a tradeoff there between update 
smoothness and performance. I don't know anything about OpenGL except 
what I've learned over last few weeks, but I assume that there isn't 
any way to avoid redrawing the whole scene for each movement.

I thought my graphics card (choices are a bit limited on Mac Pro) was 
pretty decent but now I want a new one. :D The cool thing is that this 
is actually faster than GEF 2D.

On 2009-07-10 10:20:37 -0700, Jens v.P. <developer@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> Miles,
>
> whow, that's cool! It's great to see applications implemented with 
> GEF3D by others. And I'm happy to hear that it made fun using GEF3D :-) 
> I especially like the camera tracks! Are they more smooth in the real 
> application (because in the movie, they seem to be not that smooth)? 
> I'm looking forward to seeing more videos like that ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Jens
>
> On 2009-07-10 07:03:21 +0200, Miles Parker <milesparker@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Thanks for all of your helpful advice and quick fixes. If you're 
> > curious what I've been up to with all of this visualization stuff 
> > ("why's he asking about shading?"), I thought you might be interested 
> > to see an example of the AMP AGF integration with GEF3D..
> >
> > http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2009/07/visualizing-agent-based-model-for-h1n1.html

cheers,

Miles




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