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Scientific Visualization with Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the she-blinded-me dept.

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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  1. Really nice tutorial... by torpor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... up to page 2 and I'm finding this tutorial to be quite a positive experience.

    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 ... sort of a big 'thread view', which would be pretty easy with VTK, it appears.

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  2. Good showcase for apple. by jericho4.0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I thought that article would be a great place to direct any developer asking 'what's so great about OS X, anyway?". It shows of some of the best features of Obj-C, the cleanness of Cocoa, and Project Builder.

    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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