kdescience module?

aleXXX alexander.neundorf at gmx.net
Thu Jul 4 22:40:00 BST 2002


On Thursday 04 July 2002 01:00, Marc Mutz wrote:
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> Hi!
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> 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.
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> 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

Sounds good.What was the name of the Qt lib which could draw nice diagrams ?
Could be another candidate.

Bye
Alex




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