visualization

Drawing a Topographical Map

I've been working on a visualization project for 2-dimensional continuous data. It's the kind of thing you could use to study elevation data or temperature patterns on a 2D map. At its core, it's really a way of flattening 3-dimensions into two-dimensions-plus-color. In my particular field of study, I'm not actually working with geograph...

3D laser scanner capturing normals?

The Lab university I work at is in the process of purchasing a laser scanner for scanning 3D objects. All along from the start we've been trying to find a scanner that is able to capture real RAW normals from the actual scanned surface. It seems that most scanners only capture points and then the software interpolates to find the normal ...

Generating a picture/graphic of a graph

In working on a shortest path algorithm across a network I would like to generate a picture of the network. I'd like to represent nodes (circles), links (lines), cost to traverse the link (number in the middle of the link line), and capacity of the link (number on the link line next to the node it represents) in the picture. Is there any...

Newbie OpenGL question

I am trying to cobble together a scene that basically consists of: A 2D image of the earth (think NASA satellite photography) that has been rotated into a view similar to this and, Cylindrical tubes that I want place at specific lat/lon coordinates. I have managed to setup the 2d image as depicted in the link above, but I am struggli...

Sources for visual explanations?

Does anyone has sources for visual explanations of algorithms (or maths) that is even more expressive, more intuitive, maybe aesthetically appealing ? Or, animations of algorithms? ...

How do you change the size of figures drawn with matplotlib?

How do you change the size of figure drawn with matplotlib? ...

What is the best way to visualize abstract concepts (algorithm/data structure)?

What's the best way to "see what is happening" in an algorithm/data structure? If it's something like a binary search I just imagine a bunch of boxes in a row, and throwing half of them out each time. Is there something more powerful that will let us grok something as abstract as an algorithm/data structure? Clarification: I'm looking f...

How can I see a visualization of a dynamic call graph for a .NET program?

Is there a tool out there for visualizing dynamic call graphs? I saw a reference to one for Visual Basic 6 but I'd like one for .NET. If I had to build a visualizer myself should I bother with the .NET profiling API or should I do something with Mono.Cecil? I started writing a CLI runtime with Cecil, but I guess it'd be easier if I just...

Visualisation Scripts for Twisted Pixel

Twisted Pixel is easily the best visualisation plug-in I have come across for media players. It accepts scripts written in .milk and .vbs, among others. I can understand .vbs, but I have no clue how to code a proper, reactive visualisation. How do I do this? ...

project-tracking tools for navigating with topic maps?

I'm having trouble with project management & am looking for a good tool that will be a good match for the way my brain works (very associatively). I'd like a bug-tracker but one that I can group tasks into topics and associate the topics to each other in a graph (see the Wikipedia entry on Topic Maps ) so that I can find & visualize easi...

Mysql Visualization Tools

Hey everyone, Does anyone know a good (preferably open source and cross platform) tool to allow simple visualization of mysql databases? I just need a tool I can quickly point at a database and it'll show basic table structure and field types, etc. Nothing too advanced or crazy. ...

How do I use the current sound out as an audio input in Quartz Composer?

If I want to build a spectrum visualizer of what's currently playing on my speakers (not the line in) what do I do? ...

show the value of the graph when cursor is placed on the graph

Hi, I am using jfreechart to draw the graphs. I need to show the value when the cursor is placed on the graph. Thanks in advance ...

What are some good libraries for graph processing / task scheduling

I'm working on (yet another) to do list program, and part of the problem I want to solve is capturing task dependencies and relative importance. I'm interested in recommendations for libraries / component that help with: Graph processing (including PageRank-like algorithms) Task / project scheduling - edit: note I don't mean OS proc...

Good tool to visualise database schema?

Are there any good tools for visualising a pre-existing database schema? I'm using MySQL if it matters. I'm currently using MySQL Workbench to process an SQL create script dump, but it's clunky, slow and a manual process to drag all the tables about (which would be okay if it wasn't so slow). ...

Does anyone know a good network/graph visualization software - just add data?

I want to plot social network visualization, but don't want to do much of programming. Does anyone know a piece of software that can do plotting, zooming in out but does not require much of programming? Say, i could provide my data in format it accepts and bah - i have a java application, flash or anything displaying my graph. ...

Software visualization for C#

Does any of you know a tool for software visualization, or visual code navigation in c#? I found a bunch of tools but they're all for Java for some reason. There's a list of them in wikipedia but none is for the .Net platform. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_visualization#Tools I'm very much interested in visual code navigation...

Simple Dynamic Graph Display for C++

I am looking for a simple graph layout library for C++. I want to embed the library into our visualizer based on wxWidgets. In summary, I am looking for something like graphviz, except dynamic - that is when an event occurs, only the change in graph needs to be loaded, not the complete display. There is dynagraph, but it seems a dead pro...

Best XML format for log events in terms of tool support for data mining and visualization?

We want to be able to create log files from our Java application which is suited for later processing by tools to help investigate bugs and gather performance statistics. Currently we use the traditional "log stuff which may or may not be flattened into text form and appended to a log file", but this works the best for small amounts o...

Getting your head around other people's code

I'm occasionally unfortunate enough to have to make alterations to very old, poorly not documented and poorly not designed code. It often takes a long time to make a simple change because there is not much structure to the existing code and I really have to read a lot of code before I have a feel for where things would be. What I think...