How to visually debug a curve

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A library of curves for estimation.

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How to visually debug a curve #27

Open pomerlef opened 10 years ago

pomerlef commented 10 years ago

Soon, we will have to drop a file somewhere and asses the quality of the curve (at least for the Euclidean space). Here are possibilities that came up at the last meeting:

VTK (Paraview, Meshlab)
PLY (Meshlab)
csv (Matlab, python)
python + ros (rviz)

Some extra questions/thoughts:

A generic way is to use the evaluate() method to densely represent the curve in space, which would be draw as points connected with lines.
How to add extra information on a given state?

furgalep commented 10 years ago

My current system is https://github.com/ethz-asl/rviz_pyplot.

I find VTK complicated and unusable. Maybe Francois, you can help with that.

Matlab isn't great for 3d plotting.