Re: 3D simulation

(for the sake of ease, there are some FreeCAD screenshots here:
http://askoh.com/freecad/what_is_freecad/index.html). 

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From: vwnc-bounces <at> cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:vwnc-bounces <at> cs.uiuc.edu] On
Behalf Of Martin McClure
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:02 PM
To: Nowak, Helge
Cc: VWNC
Subject: Re: [vwnc] 3D simulation

Nowak, Helge wrote:
> Dear Smalltalkers,
> 
> could you give me some ideas about 3D imaging and simulation in 
> Smalltalk, e. g. for technical or medical solutions. Think scanning 
> data from different devices need to be synced, processed and displayed

> with the ability to rotate, slice etc. in arbitrary ways
interactively.
> 
> Are there any solutions in Smalltalk that one could use as a starter?
> Or: are there any at all?
> Which (external) libraries would you suggest?
> Which kind of database would you suggest: OO or RDBMS?
> 
> Any pointers welcome!

An interesting problem area. I'd think Smalltalk would be ideal for it, 
though I'll admit some bias in that area.   

I haven't used it, but there is Jun. I suspect that it's more on the
displaying 3D side than the manipulating 3D data side, but could still
be useful.

This sounds like an area where you might want deep hierarchies of data,
or other structures that don't fit easily into a table structure, so I'd
go with an OODB. GemStone would be ideal. I'll admit some bias in that 
area as well.   :-D

Regards,

-Martin
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