[Paraview] ANN: KiwiViewer arrives in the Android Market

Tue Feb 14 11:08:46 EST 2012

It wasn't much of a review, really! :-) There is that much useless software
and bloatware on the market, that it is nice to see more proper, functional
software appear.This is just a really nice tool for an engineer to have at
their disposal. I look forward to getting my hands dirty with it in the
coming weeks!

Adriano

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Adriano Gagliardi MEng PhD
Business Sector Leader
Computational Aerodynamics
Aircraft Research Association Ltd.
Manton Lane
Bedford

Tel: 01234 32 4644
E-mail: agagliardi at ara.co.uk
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From: Pat Marion [mailto:pat.marion at kitware.com] 
Sent: 14 February 2012 14:56
To: Sebastien Jourdain
Cc: agagliardi at ara.co.uk; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] ANN: KiwiViewer arrives in the Android Market

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
Business Sector Leader
Computational Aerodynamics
Aircraft Research Association Ltd.
Manton Lane
Bedford

Tel: 01234 32 4644
E-mail: agagliardi at ara.co.uk
Url: www.ara.co.uk 

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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
<http://vtk.org/Wiki/VES/Developers_Guide> code 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
<http://vtk.org/Wiki/VES/Screenshots> page, and also watch the brain atlas
demonstration movie <http://vimeo.com/30924719> .

The Kitware team 

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