3D Charting primitives with GDImage 6.00
Posted by Patrice Terrier
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3D Charting primitives with GDImage 6.00 May 16, 2012 01:08PM |
Charting is a WD16/WD17 project, which purpose is to present the new "Chart" primitives build-in GDImage 6.00.
Primitives:
Band, Bar, Cone, Cube, Cup, Cylinder, Dome, Grid, Line, Point, Pyramide, Sphere, Text, Torus.
About text display, it is possible to use either orthographic mode (2D pixel aligned), or antialiased "True Type" fonts that are created on the fly, and that could be oriented at any angle in the 3D space.
Surface rendering uses a proprietary technic to produce sophisticated refraction mixing light and translucency altogether.
You can see this in real life, while moving the chart with the mouse in the 3D scene.
Automatic mousing support:
The [Reset] button, brings back all the parameters to default, and restarts the growing Chart animation.
These new GDImage API, extend the WinDev's presentation capabilities, with interactive 3D and little impact on the CPU even when using the full screen mode.
Click here to download the project
Note: To keep the size of the ZIP file small, the project is provided only with source code, thus you must test it from the environment or compile it yourself.
Screen shot:
Primitives:
Band, Bar, Cone, Cube, Cup, Cylinder, Dome, Grid, Line, Point, Pyramide, Sphere, Text, Torus.
About text display, it is possible to use either orthographic mode (2D pixel aligned), or antialiased "True Type" fonts that are created on the fly, and that could be oriented at any angle in the 3D space.
Surface rendering uses a proprietary technic to produce sophisticated refraction mixing light and translucency altogether.
You can see this in real life, while moving the chart with the mouse in the 3D scene.
Automatic mousing support:
- [*]Left button, rotate in 3D space.
[*]Right button, translation on the X, Y, Z axis.
[*]Mouse wheel, zooming adjustment.
The [Reset] button, brings back all the parameters to default, and restarts the growing Chart animation.
These new GDImage API, extend the WinDev's presentation capabilities, with interactive 3D and little impact on the CPU even when using the full screen mode.
Click here to download the project
Note: To keep the size of the ZIP file small, the project is provided only with source code, thus you must test it from the environment or compile it yourself.
Screen shot:
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Re: 3D Charting primitives with GDImage 6.00 May 18, 2012 02:13PM |
Joris
Thank you!
Here is another screen shot:
Thank you!
Here is another screen shot:
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Re: 3D Charting primitives with GDImage 6.00 May 18, 2012 10:06PM |
Hi,
When I did my work in clarion I used a "skin template" Ocx from codejock that let me change skings like this example.
I was studing your examples on your web page (for skinning WD Apps), they are real cool, but the actual data is hard to read as the background take too mutch focus away.
Are you planning templates/ colors with more subtle colors and graphics?
Cheers
Tor-Bjarne
When I did my work in clarion I used a "skin template" Ocx from codejock that let me change skings like this example.
I was studing your examples on your web page (for skinning WD Apps), they are real cool, but the actual data is hard to read as the background take too mutch focus away.
Are you planning templates/ colors with more subtle colors and graphics?
Cheers
Tor-Bjarne
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New version May 25, 2012 03:40PM |
The project has been updated to work with GDImage 6.04
What is new:
Antialias computation is done entirely by the GPU, thus keeping the CPU charge very low.
The new WGL_Createwindow API, can be used with any 3D application, it provides the same quality that the one being used in animation studio, without changing anything to the existing OpenGL code.
The link in the first post of this thread has been updated.
What is new:
- [*]State of the art anti-aliasing (based on WGL extension).
[*]GL_ChartCone primitive.
[*]GL_ChartPoint primitive.
[*]Particle billboarding alignment (GL_ChartPoint).
[*]Bubble and Ball texture.
Antialias computation is done entirely by the GPU, thus keeping the CPU charge very low.
The new WGL_Createwindow API, can be used with any 3D application, it provides the same quality that the one being used in animation studio, without changing anything to the existing OpenGL code.
The link in the first post of this thread has been updated.