[Paraview] ANN: KiwiViewer arrives in the Android Market

[Pat Marion]

Hi Adriano,

KiwiViewer doesn't recognize the vtm file extension, I overlooked that
one.  We'll add it in the next version.  In the meantime, please take a
look here-

  http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VES/KiwiViewer_Scene_File

And  thanks for your review in the Android market!

Pat


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Sebastien Jourdain <
sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Adriano,
>
> It's nice to see such interest. I guess Pat might be able to provide more
> details, but in the mean time I'll try to come with some workaround.
>
> So regarding the type of the data that can be loaded, thanks to ParaView
> and ParaViewWeb there is no real limitation. You can use a ParaViewWeb as a
> front-end to convert on the fly the data that you need to load and ask your
> mobile device to render the geometry that has been delivered to it. You can
> even ask ParaViewWeb to pre-process the raw data to get only the subset you
> are interested in.
>
> In fact the coupling of ParaViewWeb and KiwiViewer brings a wider use case
> to the whole framework and that's true for both framework. Both can benefit
> from each other. ParaViewWeb extend its usage outside the Web and
> KiwiViewer get access to a remote processing framework that can do the
> heavy lifting so it could focus on the rendering part.
>
> Seb
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Adriano Gagliardi <agagliardi at ara.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Sebastien,
>>
>> This is excellent news!
>>
>> I've been waiting for something similar for a while. I look forward to
>> checking out the functionality provided out the box. Will this be developed
>> internally at Kitware (taking, for example, community input for
>> improvements) or will future work be based purely on paid-for work? I
>> noticed from the release information the .vtm format is not supported. Will
>> this change in the future?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adriano
>>
>> ===================================
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>> Adriano Gagliardi MEng PhD
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>> Computational Aerodynamics
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>> *From:* paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:
>> paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Sebastien Jourdain
>> *Sent:* 13 February 2012 21:32
>> *To:* vtkusers; paraview at paraview.org
>> *Subject:* [Paraview] ANN: KiwiViewer arrives in the Android Market
>>
>>   SUMMARY:
>> If you follow mobile computing (iOS and Android), VTK, VES, and/or
>> ParaView the following announcement may be of interest to you. The new
>> KiwiViewer app is now available in both the Android Market and Apple App
>> Store. There is also a cool feature that enables ParaViewWeb to push
>> geometry to the KiwiViewer application. This application and supporting
>> libraries are available in open source form. Read on for details.
>>
>> ANNOUNCEMENT:
>>
>> The KiwiViewer applications has arrived in the Android Market and you can
>> now download it from
>> https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kitware.KiwiViewer*. *
>>
>> In this Android release, we've added new features and built-in
>> visualization demos, so definitely check out this app even if you're
>> already familiar with KiwiViewer for the iPhone/iPad<http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwiviewer/id455271681?mt=8> (we'll
>> release an app update to bring these new features to iOS owners shortly)
>> Some of the highlights include:
>>
>>    - Built-in vis. demos, including a brain atlas viewer, time-series
>>    animation, and a 3D image slice plane widget;
>>    - ParaViewWeb connectivity (connect to a running session and receive
>>    geometry from ParaViewWeb, then view it locally on the mobile device
>>    without any further network access);
>>    - Easy access to all many datasets - you can open from DropBox or an
>>    SD card, or download from a URL, with the ability to load scenes consisting
>>    of multiple datasets.
>>
>> For a description of features and supported file formats, visit the
>> KiwiViewer app docume <http://kiwiviewer.org/kiwiviewer/help/documentation.html>
>>
>>
>>
>>  ntation page. If your favorite file format is not supported, please let
>> us know! Contact us at kiwiviewer at public.kitware.com. As an immediate
>> solution, you can use ParaView <http://paraview.org/> to convert files
>> for KiwiViewer.
>>
>> KiwiViewer isn't just for end users. It is an open-source project,
>> powered by VTK (the Visualization Toolkit) and VES (the VTK OpenGL ES 2.0
>> Rendering Engine.) We encourage you to check out the code<http://vtk.org/Wiki/VES/Developers_Guide> and
>> use it to develop your own mobile applications. Kitware can help you
>> develop advanced mobile apps; for inquiries, contact kitware at kitware.com.
>>
>>
>> For more screenshots, visit the screenshot page,<http://vtk.org/Wiki/VES/Screenshots> and
>> also watch the brain atlas demonstration movie<http://vimeo.com/30924719>
>> .
>>
>> The Kitware team
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