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Scientific Visualization with Mac OS X
spectatorion writes "O'Reilly is running this article by quantum chemist Drew McCormack about developing scientific visualization applications using Mac OS X. From the article, 'For those of you not familiar with VTK, it is to visualization what Cocoa is to application development: VTK provides a high-level object-oriented framework which allows you to easily visualize 3D data sets without having to write any low-level OpenGL code.' Definitely a good read for any scientists trying to develop for Mac OS X."
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Cool! I've been trying to get VTK running on OSX, but it was kinda hard to figure it out by myself. I look forward to try to port my girlfriend's VTK geographical visualization project over from the dark side (evil empire visual c++).
I don't know, when I saw the term "quantum chemist" I thought that maybe he was atom-sized and played golf with electrons. Either that or maybe he was stuck leaping through space in time...
I know, I know, quantum chemistry is a genuine branch of science. I'm a chemist myself but I still can't help getting that image of that tiny little chemist taking a nap inside the s1 orbital of a hydrogen atom.
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... up to page 2 and I'm finding this tutorial to be quite a positive experience.
... sort of a big 'thread view', which would be pretty easy with VTK, it appears.
I'm no scientist, but I could certainly think of some great, creative uses for this toolkit, based on what I've read so far.
One thing that comes to mind is to do some sort of visualization app for the various mailing list archives
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I've been doing some work with OpenDX recently to visualize data collected for some parallel computing projects I've been working on as a grad student. It's an open source visualization toolkit from IBM which runs mainly on unix and Windows (requires an X11 server).
Anyway, they've recently got it running on Mac OS X and is certainly worth checking out along with the software discussed in the article.
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O'Reilly should add tabs support to this as well as virtual desktops.
for anyone interested in visualization, check out Open Scene Graph, a fast maturing LGPL project that is well suited to games. (and science/med/etc.) Almost zero documentation , though, but that'll change.
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