I am a student at the university of Paderborn, and I want to write a Scientific Visualisation Tool. I saw HotDraw and believe, that this is a very good starting point. Has anyone tried to transport it to Squeak? What experience s/he has made ? What is the best version for the transport ?
I am glad about every hint and any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you very much! Stefanie
Hi,
I am a student at the university of Paderborn, and I want to write a Scientific Visualisation Tool. I saw HotDraw and believe, that this is a very good starting point.
That heavily depends on what you consider to be "Scientific Visualization" ;-)) The term is commonly used in Computer Graphics to describe stuff like vector field or scattered data visualization. If you want to do such stuff then I rather doubt that HotDraw is the right starting point.
Has anyone tried to transport it to Squeak?
Don't know exactly. I know that some people have expressed interest in porting it but I've no idea how far these efforts are.
What experience s/he has made ?
It's a really cool drawing editor. A lot of fun in particular if you want to extend it by yourself. But until it's ported to Squeak it might be better to use it with VisualWorks. There will be a free version of VisualWorks 3.0 for Windows but I don't know if it's out yet.
I am glad about every hint and any help would be greatly appreciated!
If you're not interested in a drawing program (i.e., if you want to do some "real" scientific visualization ;-)) feel free to contact me by email. I'm sure we can figure out something (no need to give everyone on the list an introduction to SciViz stuff :).
Andreas
PS. Du bist nicht vielleicht bei Frau Domik?! Der Matthias Knig ist nmlich jetzt in unserem Institut ;^)
Stefanie Thies wrote:
I am a student at the university of Paderborn, and I want to write a Scientific Visualisation Tool. I saw HotDraw and believe, that this is a very good starting point.
If by Scientific Visualization Tool, you are talking about Bar Charts, line charts, scatter diagrams, etc then HotDraw would be a good source for some geometric figures (lines, splines) that you will need. HotDraw was designed as a interactive drawing tool. Its units are screen units.
Has anyone tried to transport it to Squeak?
If anyone has ported it, no one is admitting to it.
What experience s/he has made ?
The real work in porting will be on the MVC. Based on what Dan Ingalls has indicated, if you can wait till Squeak Version 2.0 is available the job will be a lot easier!
What is the best version for the transport ?
The lastest version that you can obtained. HotDraw homepage is http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~brant/HotDraw
I am glad about every hint and any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you very much! Stefanie
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