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4kbt / NewtonianEotWashToolkit

A simple point-wise Newtonian gravitational force calculator
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Hack together a rudimentary visualization system for NEWT-Multi #22

Closed 4kbt closed 2 years ago

4kbt commented 4 years ago

It is very difficult to ensure that models are representative of reality without a visualization system.

We could :

  1. Explore for pythonic visualization tools

or

  1. Continue to build NEWT-Multi / NEWT-PointGravity integration so that DisplayPoints might be able to provide a passable rendering of NEWT-Multi constructions
eshaw commented 4 years ago

Yeah, I've looked at this extensively. The best thing I've found to visualize is blender. I've built up some visualizations, but it will take a lot of work to make something that is fully functional.

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It is very difficult to ensure that models are representative of reality without a visualization system.

We could :

  1. Explore for pythonic visualization tools

or

  1. Continue to build NEWT-Multi / NEWT-PointGravity integration so that DisplayPoints might be able to provide a passable rendering of NEWT-Multi constructions

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4kbt commented 4 years ago

How well does M2CAD work under gfortran? Is that a viable visualization candidate?

eshaw commented 4 years ago

I feel like it should be about as good as AutoCAD 2002. I'm not sure what the specific gripes are.

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How well does M2CAD work under gfortran? Is that a viable visualization candidate?

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JGLee6 commented 4 years ago

There is also FreeCAD which allows for Python scripting. That could push this in a more open-source direction.

eshaw commented 4 years ago

Yeah, FreeCAD could work better than blender. I found it hard to get off the ground, but maybe it would end up being less work to implement all the shapes.

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There is also FreeCAD which allows for Python scripting. That could push this in a more open-source direction.

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JGLee6 commented 2 years ago

@eshaw seems to have worked this out with CadQuery (caedc9671dc98dac10b72fdfe555ea40b79f28bb)