Where it started

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Where it started
Kitware

• Medical / Weather Imaging
• Visualization Toolkit Engine
• Open source
• Cluster capable
• OOD

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Programming with E2VO Students
Robert Maynard Lead Programmer
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Where it was

• Paraview -gt ParaviewGeo
• OPEN
• Major challenge for mining
• Switch from GoCad / DataMine
• 2.5 month Experiment
• Mentorship
• Tool development

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My Job

• Teacher
• Programming (Python / VTK)
• 3 week course
• Mentor
• Resource for daily programming problems
• Developer

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Finite-Discrete Element Method

• ParaViewGeo Reader
• Reads files generated by
• Y program

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Why?

• Geomechanics Group _at_ U of T

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Why ParaViewGeo?

• Time Support
• Data Analysis
• Animation
• Pan
• Zoom
• Rotate

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Customizing ParaViewGeo
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Customizing ParaViewGeo
Floating Detached View Manager
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Fullscreen ParaViewGeo
Server Client
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Cross Section Loading
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Cross Section Loading
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Surface Reconstruction
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Surface Reconstruction
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Information Visualization

• Mining Mind Map
• Mine Planning and SOT
• ParaViewGeo Implementation

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Mining Mind Map
Scheduling
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Scheduling
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SOT Data
Schedule Parameters Guidance Formula Capacity Net
Present Value Mine Life Village Similarity
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ParaViewGeo Implementation
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Paper Space vs. Model Space

• AutoCAD has 2 separate work spaces
• Paper space
• Model space
• Two different scales
• Automatic scaling
• ParaViewGeo does not scale automatically

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Model Space
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Paper Space
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Combined
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In ParaViewGeo
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2D and 3D

• ParaViewGeo now has support for both 2D and 3D
  DXF files

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2D Files - ParaViewGeo
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3D Files
AutoCAD
ParaViewGeo
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Layers and Blocks

• Data grouped by layer/block
• Coloured by layer

Layer
Entities
Block
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Extensive Object Support

• Supported objects
• Points
• Lines
• Polylines
• Circles
• Arcs
• Text
• 3DFaces (polygons)
• 3D Polyface meshing

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DrillHole Compositing

• User-defined analysis region
• Intersection detection

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DrillHole Visualization - Hierarchical Datasets
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MINE24D to MAP3D
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MINE24D to MAP3D
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Volume Tetrahedralization
Tetrahedralized objects
Slicing the objects
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SGeMS Reader/Writer
Cartesian Grid in SGeMs
Cartesian Grid in Paraview
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Discover Abitibi Cross Sections

• ID, position, value, unit
• Value Unit Thickness of Surficial Sediments

Database ? Text File ? ParaViewGeo
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2D vs. 3D Cross Sections
We started with 2D
We made it 3D
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Discover Abitibi

• Gravity and Magnetic Shells

Binary ? ParaViewGeo VRML? with Python
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Gravity and Magnetic Shells
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GoCad Reader / Writer
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MIRARCO Drillhole Manager
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MIRARCO Seismic Database
Complete Seismic Data Set
Ellipsoid Clusters
Cluster Intersections
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ParaViewGeo Filters

• Convert Polygons to Grid
• Distance to Grid
• Drillhole Compositing
• Drillhole to Hierarchical Dataset
• Map Attributes Between Datasets
• Peak Particle Velocity
• Proximity Threshold
• Sequence Arrows
• Surface Reconstruction
• Time Threshold
• Volume Tetrahedralization
• Wireframe Intersection

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ParaViewGeo Readers

• Autocad DXF
• BlockModel (ASCII CSV)
• Datamine
• FEM/DEM
• GoCad
• Geo Referenced Cross Section Images
• Geo Referenced Plane Images
• GeoSoft

• Gemcom (ASCII CSV)
• Map3D
• Maptek Vulcan
• MIRARCO Drillhole Database
• MIRARCO Seismic Database
• MIRARCO SOT-EPS
• Minesight
• SGeMs
• VTK

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ParaViewGeo Wiki
http//paraviewgeo.mirarco.org

• Download
• About
• Features
• Functionality
• Tutorials

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Thank You