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