Do you use 3D visualizat​ion/graphs​?

...if so, I'd love to get your feedback.
Specifically... 
Is 3D visualization important in your LabVIEW applications?
Do you use any 3rd-party tools for 3D visuals?
What can be improved in LabVIEW in order to meet your visualization challenges?
Message Edited by chris.b on 09-08-2009 05:27 PM
Chris Bolin
LabVIEW Partner Program, CLA

Dear All,
Upon multiple customer requests, I started studying LabVIEW on behalf of VSG (Visualization Sciences Group, www.vsg3d.com) in early 2009 to see whether VSG's 3D visualization technology, represented by  Open Inventor (OIV hereafter) SDK and Avizo application, can bring value to the LabVIEW community.
From a historical standpoint, LabVIEW and OIV/Avizo communities are at two ends of the large data volume and real-time spectrum. OIV/Avizo visualization technology has been adopted in imaging, seismic and numerical simulation where the interpretation of large amount of multi-dimensional, multi-variate, transient data dictates the success of the corresponding applications. On the other hand, data streams coming in and out of LabVIEW applications are processing-time critical and relatively small in volume.  
While I am fascinated by LabVIEW technology and the wonderful community around it in this initiative, I am also pleasantly surprised the great synergy between LabVIEW and OIV/Avizo.
There are a number technology trends that have lead to this synergy,
1. Advances in data acquisition hardware continues to drive down the cost and improve the performance, which resulted in an explosion of data size.
2. There are increased number of applications with requirements on both real-time, hardware in-the-loop and interactive 3D.
3. A significant growth of the needs on comparing and fusing data from experiments and simulation.
The findings of this initiative is documented by an invited talk at NIWeek and a LabVIEW-Avizo integration prototype, available through these two links respectively,
http://www.vsg3d.com/vsg_sol_avizo_labview.php
http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-6054
The prototype developed in this project is fairly simple. It is serving as a proof-of-concept that Avizo can be a nice complimentary tool to enhance LabVIEW's 3D capability. In the light of better serving LabVIEW user community, it will be extremely valuable to get your feedback regarding the questions that Chris initiated above.
This initiative has been support at the very beginning by NI, and would not be possible otherwise.
Regards
Shawn Zhang ([email protected])
VSG - Visualization Sciences Group

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