[vtkusers] VISAN

[Sander Niemeijer]

Hi Ingo,

Thanks for pointing this out.

It should work now.

Best regards,
Sander

On dinsdag, jun 15, 2004, at 11:04 Europe/Amsterdam, de Boer Ingo wrote:

>
> http://www.science-and-technology.nl/beat/download/packages/ 
> visansetup-1.0.0.exe
>
> is dead...
>
> greets
>   Ingo
>
> ---
> 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).
>