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# DataForge Visualization Platform
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## Table of Contents
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* [Introduction](#introduction)
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* [Requirements](#requirements)
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* [Features](#features)
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* [About DataForge](#about-dataforge)
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* [Modules contained in this repository](#modules-contained-in-this-repository)
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* [visionforge-core](#visionforge-core)
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* [visionforge-solid](#visionforge-solid)
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* [visionforge-gdml](#visionforge-gdml)
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* [Visualization for External Systems](#visualization-for-external-systems)
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* [Demonstrations](#demonstrations)
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* [Simple Example - Solid Showcase](#simple-example---solid-showcase)
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* [Full-Stack Application Example - Muon Monitor](#full-stack-application-example---muon-monitor-visualization)
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* [GDML Example](#gdml-example)
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## Introduction
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This repository contains a [DataForge](#about-dataforge)\-based framework
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used for visualization in various scientific applications.
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The main framework's use case for now is 3D visualization for particle physics experiments.
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Other applications including 2D plots are planned for the future.
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The project is developed as a [Kotlin multiplatform](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/multiplatform.html)
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application, currently targeting browser JavaScript and JVM.
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## Requirements
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JVM backend requires JDK 11 or later
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## Features
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The main framework's features for now include:
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- 3D visualization of complex experimental set-ups
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- Event display such as particle tracks, etc.
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- Scales up to few hundred thousands of elements
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- Camera move, rotate, zoom-in and zoom-out
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- Scene graph as an object tree with property editor
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- Settings export and import
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- Multiple platform support
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## About DataForge
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DataForge is a software framework for automated scientific data processing. DataForge Visualization
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Platform uses some of the concepts and modules of DataForge, including: `Meta`, `Configuration`, `Context`,
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`Provider`, and some others.
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To learn more about DataForge, please consult the following URLs:
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* [Kotlin multiplatform implementation of DataForge](https://github.com/mipt-npm/dataforge-core)
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* [DataForge documentation](http://npm.mipt.ru/dataforge/)
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* [Original implementation of DataForge](https://bitbucket.org/Altavir/dataforge/src/default/)
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## Modules contained in this repository
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### visionforge-core
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Contains a general hierarchy of classes and interfaces useful for visualization.
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This module is not specific to 3D-visualization.
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The `visionforge-core` module also includes configuration editors for JS (in `jsMain`) and JVM (in `jvmMain`).
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**Class diagram:**
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### visionforge-solid
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Includes common classes and serializers for 3D visualization, as well as Three.js and JavaFX implementations.
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**Class diagram:**
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##### Prototypes
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One of the important features of the framework is support for 3D object prototypes (sometimes
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also referred to as templates). The idea is that prototype geometry can be rendered once and reused
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for multiple objects. This helps to significantly decrease memory usage.
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The `prototypes` property tree is defined in `SolidGroup` class via `PrototypeHolder` interface, and
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`SolidReference` class helps to reuse a template object.
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##### Styles
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`VisionGroup` has a `styleSheet` property that can optionally define styles at the Group's
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level. Styles are applied to child (descendant) objects using `Vision.styles: List<String>` property.
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### visionforge-gdml
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GDML bindings for 3D visualization (to be moved to gdml project).
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## Visualization for External Systems
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The `visionforge` framework can be used to visualize geometry and events from external,
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non-Kotlin based systems, such as ROOT. This will require a plugin to convert data model
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of the external system to that of `visionforge`. Performing such integration is a work
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currently in progress.
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## Demonstrations
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The `demo` module contains several example projects (demonstrations) of using the `visionforge` framework.
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They are briefly described in this section, for more details please consult the corresponding per-project
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README file.
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### Simple Example - Solid Showcase
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Contains a simple demonstration with a grid including a few shapes that you can rotate, move camera, and so on.
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Some shapes will also periodically change their color and visibility.
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[More details](demo/solid-showcase/README.md)
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**Example view:**
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### Full-Stack Application Example - Muon Monitor Visualization
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A full-stack application example, showing the
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[Muon Monitor](http://npm.mipt.ru/en/projects/physics#mounMonitor) experiment set-up.
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[More details](demo/muon-monitor/README.md)
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**Example view:**
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### GDML Example
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Visualization example for geometry defined as GDML file.
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[More details](demo/gdml/README.md)
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##### Example view:
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## Thanks and references
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The original three.js bindings were made by [Lars Ivar Hatledal](https://github.com/markaren), but the project is discontinued right now.
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All other libraries are explicitly shown as dependencies. We would like to express specific thanks to JetBrains Kotlin-JS team for consulting us during the work.
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