GLVisualize is an interactive 2D/3D visualization library completely written in OpenGL and Julia.
It is actively developed but it isn't officially released yet, since there are still quite a few
inconsistencies and missing documentations.
A lot of things already work nicely, so besides missing documentations and a high probability that the API will change in the near future, there is no real reason why you shouldn't give it a try.
You can look at test/runtests.jl and the example folder, to get a sense of how you can use GLVisualize.
There is only a prototype available right now. The examples are not guaranteed to be usable with the current version and rather give an outlook to the future API.
Here is a script adding the packages and checking out the correct branches:
Pkg.add("GLVisualize")Known problems:
- On linux, particles don't seem to work whenever you don't pass
color=texture_buffer(Vector{RGBA{Float32}})to thevisualizekeyword arguments (assigning every particle a seperate color). This is fixed on branchnext2 - boundingboxes are not always correct (fixed on
next2) - On Mac OS, you need to make sure that Homebrew.jl works correctly, which was not the case on some tested machines (needed to checkout master and then rebuild)
- GLFW needs
cmakeandxorg-devlibglu1-mesa-devon linux (can be installed viasudo apt-get install xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev). - VideoIO and FreeType seem to be also problematic on some platforms. There isn't a fix for all situations. If these package fail, try
Pk.update();Pkg.build("FailedPackage").If this still fails, report an issue on Github!
Try Pkg.test("GLVisualize") to see if things work! If things are working, you should see (after some delay for compilation) an animation pop up in a window with a spiral of cubes moving over a background of several other images and visualizations. Something like this:
Close the window when you tire of watching it, and you should see a "tests passed" message.