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Here are some ideas on expanding partiview: (KIRA group)
>> what shoudl we call us:
manybody group
starlab group
kira group
1) extra windows
Probably the most prominent thing our group has been
talking about (and partially implemented) is some sibling windows
(e.g. the HR diagram) to aid in visualization. Some of these ideas are
in a way very similar to Dynamic Queries
(e.g.http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/aips++/ddq.ps) and xgobi
(http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/).
2) command line interface
The command interface to partiview is something that grew
out of needs. For beginners it is often a bit confusing to
see two types of commands: data commands and control commands.
But we could change this command interface to one of the currently
popular scripting languages, such as Ruby or Python. Ideally to shield
ourselves from progress (e.g. when a new language comes around) we
could use SWIG (swig.org) .
>> i'd like to put a hypethetical code snippet here.
3) remote operations
Sort of like a client server, it would be nice if partiview
could be instructed to sit in a mode where it also listens
asyncronesly to events, and external agents can then do
things. Perhaps some of this 'need' will go away if we
have a python-like scripting language, since they come with
this. The example in the manual how to make animations is
one place where i encountered this. Another example could
be to use partiview to view in real-time the progress of
a simulation, and allow the user to interact with the data
while it's being integrated.
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