If you are working on an application based on Equalizer, please drop us an email and we will add your program to the list.
RTT Scale
RTT Scale is the scalability module for RTT DeltaGen and RTT DeltaView plus. RTT Scale uses Equalizer to boost OpenGL and ray-tracing performance on highly realistic, complex scenes. Please visit http://www.rtt.ag for more information. Image copyright Realtime Technology AG, 2008.
Computer Graphics and Multimedia Systems, University of Siegen
Hase3d: Hardware accelerated flow visualization
The hase3d project bundles a set of techniques for the interactive evolution and visualization of various flow primitives, i.e. particles, lines and surfaces/volumes. Using the Equalizer framework, the application has been extended to multi-node rendering in order to immerse the user into the virtual reality cave at the University of Siegen.
"Equalizer bundles multi-node rendering and synchronization tools into an easy-to-use and well-structured object-oriented framework", says Nicolas Cuntz, researcher at the University of Siegen. "Porting to Equalizer can be achieved without completely restructuring the application. However, one has to deal with data synchronization and possible problems related to threading and parallelism, which is a problem that cannot completely be delegated to a library."
The cave consists of a cylindrical projection area composed of six (stereo) projectors (four front, two floor). An enhanced interactivity is achieved by introducing head and object tracking to the user interface.
The flow-vis module visualizes a typhoon simulated by the DKRZ Hamburg. Direct visualization techniques help climate researchers to explore flow characteristics by controlling the visual output.
The surface evolution module features arbitrary deformations preserving volume and allowing topological changes. This is used for interactive object modelling in the VR application.
eqSmart: Terrain rendering
eqSmart is a port of the Smart terrain rendering software. Smart is based upon the Ogre3D graphics engine. Support for database decomposition was not implemented. eqSmart will be superseded by eqRaster, an OpenGL-based terrain visualization engine.
eqSmart is not publically available due to licensing issues.
eqOgre: Ogre/Equalizer integration
eqOgre is an integration of the Ogre3D graphics engine with Equalizer. It is a first version of such an integration, and does not yet support database decomposition or data updates.
eqOgre is looking for a new owner! The latest version can be found here. If you are willing to maintain this example, please drop us an email.
