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[{"user_id": 11246, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298904744.624233, "message": "the role of examples: vtk wiki examples, matplotlib gallery, sphinx/doxygen embedded links", "group_id": 3435, "id": 225990}, {"user_id": 16461, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298905772.7160809, "message": "@spidr ITK examples also succeeding", "group_id": 3435, "id": 226093}, {"user_id": 16461, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298905780.595196, "message": "Embedding diagrams: http://www.itk.org/Doxygen/html/structitk_1_1NeighborhoodAlgorithm_1_1ImageBoundaryFacesCalculator.html", "group_id": 3435, "id": 226096}, {"user_id": 11246, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298907210.146023, "message": "@daviddoria nice", "group_id": 3435, "id": 226216}, {"user_id": 11246, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298907262.50583, "message": "what are the basics a researcher should know about computer graphics, and where should they find out about them", "group_id": 3435, "id": 226219}, {"user_id": 16461, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298945015.018903, "message": "@spidr OpenGL tutorials are good for learning how things WORK (I learned a lot from here: http://nehe.gamedev.net/), but I always suggest using VTK so that people can concentrate on their higher level work (i.e. they just want the sphere to represent a position (a marker) - they don't care how the vertices of the sphere are ordered, etc) and VTK takes care of all of these low level details.", "group_id": 3435, "id": 230993}, {"user_id": 11246, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298949944.726239, "message": "interactive visualization", "group_id": 3435, "id": 231436}, {"user_id": 11246, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298950042.686862, "message": "determining what region of the data and dynamic range is important", "group_id": 3435, "id": 231448}, {"user_id": 16461, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298980449.3797791, "message": "@spidr For the last two items you mentioned, you should definitely have someone from the Paraview team on the show", "group_id": 3435, "id": 233929}, {"user_id": 8649, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298991134.40959, "message": "Alternatively, if we choose to discuss \"what do scientific programmers need to know about making good visualizations\", that would be a useful topic and you could offer enough tips in a single 30 minute session to make it worthwhile.", "group_id": 3435, "id": 235210}, {"user_id": 8649, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298991509.016957, "message": "We can also talk about what *not* to do, whether it's David's feedback above about avoiding base OpenGL, or it's a higher level point about not writing your own visualization system if you can avoid it.", "group_id": 3435, "id": 235267}, {"user_id": 11246, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298991586.7312231, "message": "@pwang, what not to do would be great also... saving plots as jpegs, ....", "group_id": 3435, "id": 235276}, {"user_id": 11246, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298991539.994765, "message": "@pwang, I think the latter sounds great.  Feel free to bring in specific examples from chaco or elsewhere. As you mention, a survey would be hard to do right.", "group_id": 3435, "id": 235269}, {"user_id": 8649, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1298991089.951128, "message": "Since visualization is such a huge topic, we have to have better focus on a few high-level topics and then drill down into those.  If we chose to do an overview of existing toolkits, I worry that the scope is too large to cover in a single episode.  There's everything from ggplot to Paraview, not to mention commercial offerings like Tecplot.  Even if we just talked about programmer toolkits, I think it would be difficult to do it justice in a single episode.", "group_id": 3435, "id": 235202}, {"user_id": 10611, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1299001643.8069839, "message": "No love for processing?", "group_id": 3435, "id": 236431}, {"user_id": 8649, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1299002770.219672, "message": "I have seen Processing used to great effect for \"infographics\" or algorithmic art, but I haven't seen it used too much for building effective data graphics...", "group_id": 3435, "id": 236495}, {"user_id": 10611, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1299004216.3253629, "message": "It sits quite nicely between throwing things to matplotlib or the like, and having to go all out with OpenGL -- shines especially when you want your scientific visualization to be interactive.", "group_id": 3435, "id": 236682}, {"user_id": 16461, "stars": [], "topic_id": 9523, "date_created": 1299017198.4585631, "message": "What time zone is the Skype session at 8:30pm?", "group_id": 3435, "id": 239577}]