[science-iwg] Eclipse Visualization & Treez

[Stefan Eidelloth <stefan.eidelloth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

I found the Eclipse Visualization project and contacted Jay a few days 
ago. He proposed
that I follow this list, introduce myself and tell you about some 
projects that might be
of interest for Eclipse SCIENCE:

Treez provides a set of Eclipse plugins for the creation of (scientific) 
graphical user interfaces
that are based on trees:
https://github.com/stefaneidelloth/treez

I've spent a lot of time on the question which plotting library to use 
for the 2D plots in Treez.
JFreeChart and some other popular tools are not compatible to the EPL 
license. The rest of the Java tools I could
find did not have build-in support for SVG export, which is one of my 
requirements. In summary, the plotting
capabilities of Eclipse/Java have been some kind of disappointment for 
me. Therefore I decided to write
a Java wrapper for d3.

javafx-d3 allows to use the powerful d3.js JavaScript library with 
JavaFx:
https://github.com/stefaneidelloth/javafx-d3

Currently I spend my free time on writing some GUI elements that allow 
to set plot properties like symbol colors,
minor tick size and so on. An already existing plotting tool that gave 
me great inspiration for that task is Veusz:
http://home.gna.org/veusz/

With other words, I am rewriting some functionality of Veusz in 
Java/Eclipse to implement a plotting window feature for Treez.

Another visualization project that might be of interest for you is Dex 
by Patrick Martin:
http://www.dexvis.com/doku.php

The execution and evaluation of batch jobs is also a very exciting field 
for me. Once the plotting window feature
 of Treez is finished, I will focus on the execution of batch 
simulations/studies. I am already able to specifiy
parameter ranges ("sweep-studies")  and plan to implement 
"probe-studies", "sensitivity-studies" and
"probability-studies" as well. The last feature is inspired by monte 
carlo tools like CrystalBall:
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/crystalball/overview/index.html

If all that sounds interesting for you, please feel free to reuse the 
code of my projects. I am looking
forward to hearing about the progress of Eclipse SCIENCE and might take 
part in some of
your future discussions.

Finally a few words on my background: I previously worked at ISFH
(Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin, Germany) where I created 
tools
for the simulation of solar cells with SPICE and FEM (Comsol 
Multiphysics):
http://www.isfh.de/institut_solarforschung/spicegui.php?dm=1&_l=1
http://www.isfh.de/institut_solarforschung/cobogui.php?_l=1

Now I am with the Fraunhofer ISI and LEEN in Karlsruhe and develop 
software
for the simulation of energy systems, energy demand forecast and the 
management of
measures in energy efficiency networks:
http://www.forecast-model.eu/forecast-en/index.php
http://leen.de/en/

Sunny regards,

Stefan


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