Visualization drivers for Geant4

Beretvas, Andy

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

关键词: Programming Computing;    Recommendations;    Computing;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Computers;   

DOI  :  10.2172/875501
RP-ID  :  FERMILAB-TM-2329-CD
RP-ID  :  AC02-76CH03000
RP-ID  :  875501

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This document is on Geant4 visualization tools (drivers), evaluating pros and cons of each option, including recommendations on which tools to support at Fermilab for different applications. Four visualization drivers are evaluated. They are OpenGL, HepRep, DAWN and VRML. They all have good features, OpenGL provides graphic output without an intermediate file. HepRep provides menus to assist the user. DAWN provides high quality plots and even for large files produces output quickly. VRML uses the smallest disk space for intermediate files. Large experiments at Fermilab will want to write their own display. They should proceed to make this display graphics independent. Medium experiment will probably want to use HepRep because of it's menu support. Smaller scale experiments will want to use OpenGL in the spirit of having immediate response, good quality output and keeping things simple.