Geant4 application in a Web browser

20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics

物理学;计算机科学

Garnier, Laurent^1

Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay Cedex

91898, France^1

关键词: Geant4 toolkits;    In-buildings;    Visualization system;    WEB application;    Window manager;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/513/6/062016/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/513/6/062016

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Geant4 is a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. The Geant4 visualization system supports many drivers including OpenGL[1], OpenInventor, HepRep[2], DAWN[3], VRML, RayTracer, gMocren[4] and ASCIITree, with diverse and complementary functionalities. Web applications have an increasing role in our work, and thanks to emerging frameworks such as Wt [5], building a web application on top of a C++ application without rewriting all the code can be done. Because the Geant4 toolkit's visualization and user interface modules are well decoupled from the rest of Geant4, it is straightforward to adapt these modules to render in a web application instead of a computer's native window manager. The API of the Wt framework closely matches that of Qt [6], our experience in building Qt driver will benefit for Wt driver. Porting a Geant4 application to a web application is easy, and with minimal effort, Geant4 users can replicate this process to share their own Geant4 applications in a web browser.