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[science-iwg] New viz project follow up

Everyone,

I previously sent a massive email about the idea for a new viz project,

http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/science-iwg/msg00743.html .

I would like to open this topic for discussion again.

I plan to start drafting the proposal next week and reach out to the other working groups through Andrew and Ian. I will also work with them and Wayne to figure out where this project should live initially (Technology, Nebula, ???).

I would like to discuss a few details with you before I start writing the proposal.

I believe the scope should cover at least the following topics:
*1D & 2D Plotting - Many of us use SWT-XY-GRAPH from Nebula now, but several of us have extensions and other features that we want and need that justify some focus on it.
*Advanced 2D and 3D visualization for data analysis and post-processing
*Time series visualizations in multiple dimensions
*Constructive modeling tools for building 3D geometries and meshes
*Constructive modeling tools for building molecules and materials models
*Domain-specific scientific visualizations - Special visualization tools for various scientific domains that exploit domain knowledge to make them better.

Please let me know what I missed or what you think about that list.

As I stated in my previous letter, this should really be a community project with committers from multiple institutions and a broad focus. I would like to see the initial contribution be composed of pieces from several institutions and the initial committers list to include people from multiple institutions. This is a perfect cross-cutting area for us to work on together.

ORNL will contribute our org.eclipse.ice.viz.* bundles from ICE, which includes our code for connecting to VisIt and ParaView and a good infrastructure for switching between visualization engines. We will also contribute our 3D geometry bundles and 2D mesh editor bundles once we remove the JME3 dependency. Alex McCaskey, Jordan Deyton, Robert Smith and I will be committers.

If you would like to contribute some code to the IC and be a committer, please write back and let me know.

That's enough for now before I end up sending two massive emails! :-P

Jay

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Jay Jay Billings
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Twitter Handle: @jayjaybillings

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