RT Graph 3D

Project

Dowload RTGraph3D v0.1.
Dowload RTGraph3D+IPv6world prerelease, that also include IPv6world program.

About

RTgraph3D will let you create dynamic graphs in 3D. It will provide this ability as a D-Bus service. Programs can use it by registering to the bus, claiming its command interface, and issuing commands. Events like shift-clicking on a node are sent as signals on the bus.

Two programs are provided with RTGraph3D. The first one, rtg_cli.py is a command line interface that will take commands from the user and transmit them through the D-Bus bus to the RTGraph3D program. The second one hydra.py is an example on how to use signals. It will register a handler on the shift-click that will add 4 nodes to every shift-clicked node.

RTGraph3D uses a physics engine that provides the cinematics of nodes. All nodes are submited to a fluid friction force (proportional to speed). They all repulse each other with a 1/r^4 force. The repulsion force is topped to avoid problem on singularities. Additionnaly, two nodes linked by an edge are attracted one by each other with a linear force (proportional to the edge's length, equivalent of a spring with null length when still.)

The physics engine is written in C with x86 SSE assembly code. If no x86 SSE compatible CPU is found, a C version is also available which also has a pretty decent speed. In case PyInline is not found or not able to compile the C code, a Python version is also available, but considerably slower (displaying 1000 nodes is comfortable with the C+SSE version while the Python one begins to be slow at 50 nodes).

Warning: This program is not safe to be spoken to by untrusted sources. Giving the possibility to submit commands is equivalent to giving a shell.

Examples

First, run RTGraph3D. It will register to the D-Bus as a service service:

$ ./rtgraph3d.py
INFO : Detected SSE compatible CPU
INFO : Using C+SSE physics engine
INFO : Entering main loop
INFO : Cinematic thread started

Then we will use the CLI to issue commands:

$ ./rtg_cli.py 
RTG> help

Undocumented commands:
======================
dotty  glow  remote_dump  rotate       set_attraction  unglow
edge   help  remote_load  rotate_stop  set_repulsion   update
find   quit  reset        set_ambient  toggle

For example, to create a tetrahedron with nodes Node1, Node2, Node3, Node4, you'll have to issue:

RTG> edge Node1 Node2 
RTG> edge Node3 Node4 Node1 Node3 Node2 Node4

You will get the following result:

Clicking on nodes will toggle an information box with the node's name.

RTG> edge Node1 Node5 Node6

We can also load a graph saved in a file.

RTG> reset
RTG> remote_load rtg/c60.rtg