HEPVIS'96 - Report

J.Hrivnac

Monday 2nd (AM) EVENT VISUALISATION L. Taylor (Chair)
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome D. Williams
09:10 - 09:30 HEP Visualisation for the masses N. Calder
  • what media wants
  • best: ATLAS Higgs Event
09:30 - 10:00 Summary of HEPVIS95 P. LeBrun
  • VR not usefull
  • what for theoretists ?
10:00 - 10:30 Event Display -- a Physicist's Perspective H. Stone
  • requirements
  • to use also on-line
10:30 - 11:00 *** COFFEE ***
11:00 - 11:40 Event Display at LEP D. McNally
  • Grope (Opal)
  • Dali (Aleph)
  • L3Scan (L3)
  • Delgra (Delphi)
11:40 - 12:00 Event Display at CDF and D0 J. Boudreau
  • OO
  • VRML soon
12:00 - 12:30 The SND Interactive 3D Event Viewer I.V. Gaponenko
  • MESA + OpenInventor
12:30 - 14:00 *** LUNCH ***
Monday 2nd (PM) EVENT VISUALISATION cont'd H.Dreverman (Chair)
14:00 - 14:30 Event Display at CLEO III C. Jones
  • OO C++
  • entity - model - viewer
  • Spectator: distribute actions, doesn't know details
14:30 - 15:00 Event Display at ATLAS J. Hrivnac
15:00 - 15:30 Event Display at CMS L. Taylor
15:30 - 16:00 *** COFFEE ***
16:00 - 16:15 Imaginative Transformations for High Multiplicity Events H. Drevermann
  • no "Events" in LHC => "Data Display" and "Track Display"
  • compression, skewing,...
  • detector resolution >> screnn resolution => one cannot see the whole picture
16:15 - 16:45 Graphics for GEANT4 J. Allison
  • visualisation interfaces;
    • Graphics System (OpenGL, DAWN, OpenInventor, X)
    • Scene (OpenGL Scene)
    • View (OpenGL View)
  • VisManager points to v.interfaces
  • different renderring for paper (colors, edges)
  • mixed solid + wireframe
  • alpha-version in Spring'97
16:45 - 17:15 Java for event display - the WIRED project C. Coperchio
  • Corba (Summer'96)
  • HORB (already)
  • 3D library (Spring'97)
  • JIT Compiler (97)
17:15 - 17:45 Event visualisation Discussion
Tuesday 3rd (AM) TECHNOLOGY & STANDARDS P. LeBrun (Chair)
09:00 - 09:30 AVS/Express B. Proix
  • will support VRML 2.0 and Java
  • can create executable
09:30 - 10:00 Iris Explorer (NAG) J. Walton
10:00 - 10:30 The G5G Object-Oriented Graphics Toolkit P. Barthelemy
  • VRMLMaster: VRML 2.0 in OpenInventor
10:30 - 11:00 *** COFFEE ***
11:00 - 11:25 Graphics Standards for HEP O. Couet
  • YGL: GNU OpenGL
11:25 - 11:50 Experiences with Open Inventor J. Boudreau
  • SLT at CDF: OO Recosntruction + Event Display
  • runs even on HP
  • Track += Hit; Vertex = Track + Track;
  • pipe: xpythia | simulate | reconstruct | detachedview
  • ostream Stream = popen(Viewer); Draw(Stream, Track); by reconstruction developer
  • "tube of probability" for errors
  • better drawing: STL map template to connect Track and GraphicsTrack => interactivity
  • 1 day to implement for first object, 30 minutes for others
  • HEP visualisation class library ?
11:50 - 12:15 Graphical User Interfaces G. Cosmo
  • Java (standalone) for GUI
12:15 - 12:30 Technology & Standards Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 *** LUNCH ***
Tuesday 3rd (PM) DEMONSTRATIONS
14:00 - 14:30 AVS/Express B. Proix
14:30 - 15:00 Iris Explorer (NAG) J. Walton
15:00 - 15:30 The G5G Object-Oriented Graphics Toolkit P. Barthelemy/L. Coureau
15:30 - 16:00 *** COFFEE ***
16:00 - 16:30 L3 Event Display D. McNally
16:30 - 17:00 CLEO III Event Display C. Jones (TBC)
17:00 - 17:30 FNAL visualisation tools J. Kyriakopulos
  • Histoscope runs over Internet (not on HP)
  • nfit above Minuit
17:30 - *** WELCOME DRINK ***
Wednesday 4th (AM) DATA ANALYSIS & VISUALISATION T. Osborne (Chair)
09:00 - 09:30 Data Analysis & Visualisation - a Physicist's Perspective J. Swain
  • need uniform data, pgm design, practicalities
  • for LEP one can do everything by hand, not for LHC
  • drag/drop events
09:30 - 10:00 Experiences with PAW J. Bunn
10:00 - 10:30 CERN plans (LHC++) Y. Adesanya
10:30 - 11:00 *** COFFEE ***
11:30 - 12:00 HEP Data analysis based on an ODBMS store D. Duellmann
  • tagObject = EventSummary
  • 1997 - 100TB disks
  • STL+Objy in ODMG 2.0 (next year)
11:00 - 11:30 Java Based Analysis Environment T. Johnson
  • send Java code from browser to Server
  • JIT = Just In Time
  • interfaces in place of multiple inheritance and templates
  • Linux has native system support, other OS will follow
12:00 - 12:30 Data Analysis & Visualisation at FNAL J. Kyriakopulos
12:30 - 14:00 *** LUNCH ***
Wednesday 4th (PM) DATA ANALYSIS & VISUALISATION cont'd J. Bunn (Chair)
14:00 - 15:00 Data Analysis & Visualisation Discussion
  • Histograms, Ntuples, Objects,...
  • Selections, Collections, Cuts,...
  • Statistical analysis
  • Exploitation of OO technologies
  • Commodity software components
  • ....
15:00 - 15:30 Closing remarks J. Allison