[Insight-users] Re: [vtkusers] VISAN

[Toon Huysmans]

To me it is alive!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "de Boer Ingo" <I.deBoer at polytec.de>
To: "Sander Niemeijer" <niemeijer at science-and-technology.nl>;
<vtkusers at vtk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: [vtkusers] VISAN



http://www.science-and-technology.nl/beat/download/packages/visansetup-1.0.0.exe

is dead...

greets
  Ingo

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Dr.-Ing. Ingo H. de Boer

Polytec GmbH
Polytec-Platz 1-7, 76337 Waldbronn, Germany
phone: ++49 7243 604 106
fax  : ++49 7243 604 255

> Dear VTK users,
>
> At our company we have been working on a free open source cross
> platform visualization and analysis application called VISAN.
> The BEAT
> project in which this application was developed was funded by the
> European Space Agency and is targeted at scientists that want
> to access
> and visualize data coming from atmospheric monitoring
> instruments that
> fly on the ENVISAT satellite <http://envisat.esa.int/>. Only recently
> we provided a first release of the VISAN application and you can
> download this application freely from our website
> (<http://www.science-and-technology.nl/beat/>) (registration is
> optional).
>
> The VISAN application was build using several freely available open
> source toolkits. We used a combination of wxPython (2.4.2.4), Python
> (2.3.3), Numarray (0.9), and of course VTK (4.4.2).
>
> In order to get the functionality we wanted we made two powerful
> extensions to VTK:
>
> The first extension is a complete overhaul of the
> vtkXYPlotActor class.
> The mayor change is the addition of a vtkInteractorStyleXYPlot class
> that allows you to interact with your X/Y plot (you can zoom and pan
> the data in your plot). But we also added logarithmic axis, better
> automatic tick position calculation, and a lot more.
>
> The second extension is a vtkProj2DFilter class. This class uses the
> PROJ library to map latitude/longitude coordinates to a series of
> different 2D projections or a 3D projection. This class has
> the ability
> to cut lines and polygons if they cross the boundaries of
> your map and
> can also interpolate line segments in order to get proper curves on
> your 2D map.
>
> In addition we have also added several VTK support classes.
> For example
> a vtkGSHHSReader class for ingesting GSHHS data
> <http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html>.
>
> Furthermore, I recently noticed a lot of questions on the
> mailing list
> regarding the combination of Python, VTK, and a GUI toolkit.
> For those
> users that would like to get this working, the source distribution of
> VISAN may be a good starting point. We have added an almost automatic
> build system for Linux and Mac OS X and step by step build
> instructions
> for Windows (using VC++ 6.0).
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