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[Vincent Richefeu <richefeu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

I have just a brief comment concerning this discussion.
I have write a visualizer for DEM simulations (mgpost, see google).
This tool could be incorporated 'into' Yade in the future.
It may be interesting to known that I used the 'vertical Y' convention.

Vincent



Le 18 nov. 08 à 21:43, Václav Šmilauer a écrit :

> > Hey, you are too quick for blaming that on me. You changed the
> > default GL view, which (arbitrarily ;) assumes currently that  
> > gravity is in Z
> > direction. And before it was in Y direction. I sort-of mitigated the
> > "complaint problem" due to your change by adding those XYZ buttons.
> > And by assuming that default view is directed depending on gravity
> > direction.
> Oh, you're right, I suppressed remembrance of me changing that and  
> only
> remembered that we had that discussion. Sorry for that, you're right.
>
> My reasoning behind that was that it is computer graphics folks  
> that use
> y for upwards (which I thought was a relict of Olivier making that
> code), whereas physicists use xy for the plane and z for height. I
> assumed that the latter would be what yade users will (including me)
> would expect, so I changed that. But I am in no strong opposition
> against reverting that.
>
> BTW, for saving the view config, you can use alt-7, alt-8, alt-9 to  
> save
> view state into #0, #1, #2 "slots", which are stored in the simulation
> .xml, and load those by pressing 7, 8, 9 respectively.
>
> Vaclav
>
>
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