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Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models? (Read 2451 times)
kevincurry
Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Dec 3rd, 2008, 3:59am  
Is anyone here working on libraries for  higher level capabilities such as these?  I'm looking for classes like:

RadialTree
ConeTree
TreeMap
ColumnChart
LineChart
AreaChart
Model (i.e., 3D file format)
Label
Fog
Camera (object, not member of PGraphics3D)
Light (same as above); i.e., SpotLight, PointLight, DirectionalLight

Anything like this?
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daveywoods
Re: Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Reply #1 - Dec 3rd, 2008, 4:41am  
Dude. I am totally not working on any classes like that.

Just wanted to give you some love bro.
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pelintra
Re: Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Reply #2 - Dec 3rd, 2008, 12:53pm  
im not working on any of that either...
but you already have lights and camera built into processing.
and there is a library to make fog.
Smiley
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Dan_Olner
Re: Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Reply #3 - Dec 3rd, 2008, 6:15pm  
I'm starting to make lines and charts with Processing, and also thinking about moving towards them being more encapsulated. Are these the sort of things you were thinking of? -

http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~gy06do/exploringchaos/

http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~gy06do/processing/ces_function/

Both of these draw graphs based on numerical equations, rather than from data.
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kevincurry
Re: Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Reply #4 - Dec 3rd, 2008, 9:37pm  
I'm looking for an object-oriented approach to common high level classes.  For example, a base GraphLayout has nodes, edges, spanningTree, origin.  A base Chart has value axis, category axis, series axis, values, categories...
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choon
Re: Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Reply #5 - Dec 11th, 2008, 3:16pm  
I am thinking of doing something similar. I would need this  to produce generic dynamic charting components.

@kevincurry Have you found out something about any community efforts for extending the capabilities of processing in this respect?
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AtomBoy
Re: Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Reply #6 - Dec 16th, 2008, 7:29pm  
For graph layout, you might look into JUNG:

http://jung.sourceforge.net/

There's also Prefuse:

http://prefuse.org/

Neither are specifically for Processing, but it's not too hard to use Java libraries.
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kevincurry
Re: Charts, Graphs, Maps, Terrain, 3D Models?
Reply #7 - Dec 16th, 2008, 8:22pm  
I'm starting Opne Source project on Source Forge:

http://bwprocessing.sourceforge.net/

Only just stood up, nothing happening yet.

@choon - No, I haven't seen anything beyond what's under /hacks and /contribute on processing.org

@AtomBoy - very familiar with prefuse, less-so w/ JUNG - trying to avoid integration of multiple heavyweight APIs each contributing only partial capability.  Instead going for a thin layer that supports all major techniques.   Prefuse might provide a good boost depending on how easily/seamlessly it could be integrated with Processing

I know this can be done.  We've already done it in C++.  Total footprint is < 3MB; see: http://dev.bridgeborn.com/Bridgeborn/download.asp (sorry, Windows only and most demo pages are written for IE though the runtime is not restricted by GUI container.)  Obviously The advantage of Java is platform portability and no client instal.
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