Status of Graphics, Viz, and Event Displays

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Status of Graphics, Viz, and Event Displays

• Jeff Kallenbach
• Jan 29,2003

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Overview

• Visualization toolkits
• Graphics Infrastructure Support
• HEPVis
• MB Event Display
• Viz room

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Visualization Toolkits

• Graphics toolkits
• Open Inventor (MB, D0, BTeV, LSC Demo)
• License management
• Custom builds from TGS
• 3DMastersuite
• Status kits for IRIX/RH71/RH73, KCC/GCC
• Open Open Inventor (SGI oss - CDF, G4)
• Coin (Free LHC, CMS)
• Status
• Would like to convert all to free by 10/03, incl
  me

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Graphics Infrastructure

• Infrastructure
• Mesa - GL api for Linux (roughly)
• Motif
• Qt
• HEPVis
• Status ongoing, stable, good mesa with RH7.3

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HEPVis

• Library of physics graphics shapes and nodes
  (inventor subclasses)
• About 50 classes (JCK, J. Boudreau, G. Barrand,
  G. Alverson, L. Taylor)
• Linux, IRIX, Sun, Win, compilers
• Bindings for Xm, Qt, oiv, open oiv, Coin
• In use at MB, CDF, D0, LHC, CMS, LSC
• Status upcoming release (2/28), then
  interaction with users for LHC deployment

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HEPVis Contents
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MiniBooNE Event Display

• In the field about 9 months
• Now part of MB framework, licenses for all the MB
  desktops
• Mostly linux, an IRIX version in vis room
• C - TGS OIV, 3DMS, Mesa, HEPVis, Xm
• Dedicated MB person (G. Mills)
• Status - will meet with MB this week to
  prioritize TODO list

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MB ED TODO

• Configuration file
• Track finder
• Read ROOT files (instead of fc) G Mills
• Various plots (from SNO ED)
• Write event
• Bug fix (found at SC2002)
• Color maps
• Various bells whistles
• Convert to Coin (9/30/03)

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MiniBooNE Event Display
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Visualization Room

• 3D Shows for various groups
• Maintain HW and SW
• Organize tours
• Manual demos
• In process of replacing Onyx with PC
• PC migration should allow movies
• Status PC migration (2/13)

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MiniBooNE On WH15

• Artifact at SC2002 - will move to 15
• Model of detector fragment
• 7 tall curved panel
• 2 PMTs, 2 photos
• Two computer screens mounted
• Virtual tour (html in MSIE)
• ED (Linux), w/ animated hits
• Status back burner some snags