The PointView Quark

An interactive view displaying a collection of points in 3D space.

Points are Cartesian points (optionally specified as directional pairs of [azimuth, elevation]) rendered through a 3-D or orthogonal projection. The model of points can be rotated or animated and the perspective can also be manipulated. Points can be displayed with colors, individually or in groups, and connecting lines can illustrate relationships between them.

The view and rotation controls are most conveniently changed through the UI built into the view, though these methods and more are available for more elaborate display of the points.

Installing

Install via SuperCollider's command line:

Quarks.install("https://github.com/ambisonictoolkit/PointView")

It's recommended but not required that you also install the SphericalDesign Quark for the ability to form a triangular mesh across convex sets of points:

Quarks.install("https://github.com/ambisonictoolkit/SphericalDesign")

Feedback and Bug Reports

Known issues are logged at GitHub.

Change log

0.3.0

• add export view to an image, optionally with or without controls shown.

0.2.0

• add ability to specify stroke width and color for each connection.
• depth-first drawing of connections and axes to enchance 3D effect.
• add axis stroke width setter method.
• scale orthographic projection view down slightly to allow room for index text on outermost points.

0.1.0

• initial release.

Credits

The development of the PointView Quark for SuperCollider3 is supported by The University of Washington's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS).  

Copyright the ATK Community, Joseph Anderson, and Michael McCrea, 2018.

• J Anderson : [e-mail]
• M McCrea : [e-mail]

Contributors

• Michael McCrea (@mtmccrea)