Have you tried IBM's OSS visualization package yet? Sorry, I don't seem
to recall the name of the tool off the top of my head (Data Explorer??)
but it uses OpenGL (IIRC) and is said to be able to visualize just about
anything. Anything is said to include simple data over time to complex
medical CT scans.
Greg
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:19, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Is there anyone here that's good with C++ and has a little bit of time
> to add PostgreSQL support to a project?
>
> There is a 4D visualisation program called Flounder:
>
> http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~vigmond/flounder/
>
> And it does some pretty nifty stuff. It takes in data sets (x, y, z,
> time) and displays then graphically, saving them to image files if
> needed, and also creating the time sequences as animations if needed.
>
> Was looking at it from a "performance tuning tool" point of view. i.e.
> Testing PostgreSQL performance with a bunch of settings, then stuffing
> the results into a database, and then using something like Flounder for
> visualising it.
>
> It seems pretty simple, and Flounder seems like it might be the right
> kind of tool for doing things like this. Was emailing with Edward
> Vigmond, the author of it, and he seems to think it'd be pretty easy to
> implement too.
>
> Now, I'm not a C++ coder, and as short of time as anyone, so I was
> wondering if there is anyone here who'd be interested in helping out here.
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
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Copeland Computer Consulting