From: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net> |
Cc: | PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgresSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] C++ coding assistance request for a visualisation tool |
Date: | 2003-01-23 04:59:31 |
Message-ID: | 3E2F76B3.8040608@postgresql.org |
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Greg Copeland wrote:
> Have you tried IBM's OSS visualization package yet? Sorry, I don't seem
> to recall the name of the tool off the top of my head (Data Explorer??)
> but it uses OpenGL (IIRC) and is said to be able to visualize just about
> anything. Anything is said to include simple data over time to complex
> medical CT scans.
Cool.
Just found it... IBM "Open Visualization Data Explorer":
http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/
Going to check it out now. The screenshot looks *very* nice.
;-)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 12:19, Justin Clift wrote:
>
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>Is there anyone here that's good with C++ and has a little bit of time
>>to add PostgreSQL support to a project?
>>
>>There is a 4D visualisation program called Flounder:
>>
>>http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/~vigmond/flounder/
>>
>>And it does some pretty nifty stuff. It takes in data sets (x, y, z,
>>time) and displays then graphically, saving them to image files if
>>needed, and also creating the time sequences as animations if needed.
>>
>>Was looking at it from a "performance tuning tool" point of view. i.e.
>>Testing PostgreSQL performance with a bunch of settings, then stuffing
>>the results into a database, and then using something like Flounder for
>>visualising it.
>>
>>It seems pretty simple, and Flounder seems like it might be the right
>>kind of tool for doing things like this. Was emailing with Edward
>>Vigmond, the author of it, and he seems to think it'd be pretty easy to
>>implement too.
>>
>>Now, I'm not a C++ coder, and as short of time as anyone, so I was
>>wondering if there is anyone here who'd be interested in helping out here.
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Regards and best wishes,
>>
>>Justin Clift
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