Some experience of using DataGraph

[davidModerator]

This is awesome. I would like to see what needs to be added to ImageTank to make this easier in 3D. ImageTank does use Metal for 3D graphics, and the graphics will look different.

Things that I would like to explore are:

ImageTank has built in support for transformations and the orthographic rotation you use could be specified and even applied in ImageTank. Not sure how easy that is right now.

IT has some basic drawing functions from DG and certainly there is a case to be made to add the Connect command so that some of the graphics can be drawn.

You mentioned Swift. Right now IT has a lot of support for running codes implemented in C++ but I am interested in adding Swift support. I need to know some basic things about multi-dimensional arrays in Swift. Certainly C++ does not have them built in, and maybe the same workaround will work in Swift.

I would love to discuss this further, e-mail david@visual…

[r_vladParticipant]

Ok. I will prepare for you a short list of remarks on DataGraph and we can discuss. C++ is not a very easy language for the average user. Swift is more democratic. But it’s also less scientist-oriented. For a scientist, a beautiful plot is not an end in itself. But a quality design always gives respect to the work… With DataGraph and ImageTank it is very important not to go overboard with the program code: it will start moving towards another Matlab and the product will start turning into a software monster. For this reason, as I understand it, DataTank has actually reached a dead end. At least I couldn’t bring myself to use it: it turned out to be complicated and inconvenient, I had to readjust. And with a high load this is already becoming a problem…

[davidModerator]

Great.

DataTank is pretty stable. The issue is that I want to make a lot of changes and it is easier to do with a fresh start rather than something that needs to be backward compatible the entire time.

ImageTank changes the variable types (simplifies and more powerful), moves to a single window (modern app style), uses Metal instead of OpenGL, improves the UI, simplifies how external programs are created and referenced and more.

Growing into a monster is always a risk for an application, I’m very aware of that.

[kirktParticipant]

These are all excellent, in both breadth and depth.

Kirk

[petercreateParticipant]

Would you make some tutorial of how to make these beautiful charts and figures?

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