kdescience module?

[Marc Mutz]

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Hi!

I tried to find stuff like voxel shaders and other widgets typically 
used in visualization today for Qt/KDE, but found not much. QTreeMap is 
the only one that comes to my mind that implements a modern 
visualization technique for Qt/KDE. And KVolumeRenderer is a whole 
program with the interesting part - the voxel shader - "buried" inside.

Maybe we could attract more developers form the research front if we 
collect such widgets and (later) programs into a kdescience module?

I'm thinking of starting the module off with QTreeMap KVolumeRenderer 
and KSOM, a port of xsom to KDE that I plan to do; xsom being a tool to 
visualize the training phase of a self-organizing map.

Another (big) thing would be to have itk/vtk integrated with KDE. There 
are apps that use them (predominantly) with FLTK and some use GTK. 
apps.kde.com tells us that there was one such attempt in the 1.1.x 
times: xtkQGL.

Just some ideas...

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz at kde.org>
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