VELES

This is a modern re-implementation of the old Veles visualization. Unlike the original implementation proposed by codisec, this implementation pre-processes the data into a 3D voxel space which is then rendered via 3D textures. As a result, rendering performance is completely independent of the data size and even large input files can be visualized without problems.

System Requirements

Linux (may or may not work on other OS to, but only Linux is tested for now)
gcc, make
OpenGL 3.3+
freeglut
glslang
bin2o

Building

Just run make and you will get a veles binary that you can run.

Usage

Start the visualization with veles the-file. This will open a window with the visualization. Use the mouse (left button) to rotate the visualization. Using the right mouse button, you can adjust the brightness (vertical movement) as well as the contrast (horizontal movement).

In addition, the following keys invoke an action:

a: Accumulate pixels instead of blending
b: Use alpha blending
c: Change color palette
g: Use standard brightness
l: Use extra low brightness (useful if your plot is way too bright)
p: Use nearest neighbor interpolation for intensity ("pixel look")
s: Use linear interpolation for intensity ("smooth look")
n: Use nearest neighbor interpolation for position ("correct colors")
f: Use linear interpolation for position ("wrong colors")
r: Reset rotation, brightness, contrast and palette

Why?

Someone said "I tried to load a game ISO into Veles and it just crashed", so I thought "why is file size even a problem anyway?" and as it turns out, it is not a problem for a proper implementation.

TODOs

Right now an orthographic projection is used, but this is quite a mindfuck for the "pixel cloud" type visualization. Implementing a perspective projection might be more useful.