Lecture 13 - 3D graphics, Intro to SciViz
How your computer and the internet process 3D graphics. What is scientific visualization?
A few more Idyll+d3 things, Starting SciViz
A few more things in Idyll and d3.js.
Optional reading list
d3.js examples (v4)
- Simple time-bar chart (we used this one to start with)
- Grouped bar chart
- Animated side-bar chart
- Histogram, binning of data
Also, here is a slightly more in-depth explanation of path/ray tracing which we’ll talk about more in Week 14:
Lectures
Examples
In class Idyll resources, Week 14
Updating storage of Idyll files in class
Prep Idyll file and components
In class jupyter notebook - (download)
Placeholder for in class coding
Prep Notebook, Week 14, Part 1 - (download)
Prep notebook for this week
Prep Notebook, Week 14, Part 2 - (download)
Prep notebook for this week
Python Libraries
Solver library (solverlibs.py)
Python library, save to notebook folder or modify your path if you know how to do that
Data
This dataset is from the Cardigan Archives and scraped using Beautiful Soup in Python and further processed in Python into this form.
This dataset is from the Cardigan Archives and scraped using Beautiful Soup in Python and further processed in Python into this form.
Galaxy Particle Simulation files (77Mb)
Downsampled output files from a particle simulation of a galaxy merger
Isolated Galaxy dataset (292 Mb)
A single snapshot in time of a grid simulation of an isolated galaxy