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Ben
Ben

Reputation:

3D scatter plots and 3D graph visualization in Java

I'm looking to create views of scientific data in Java.

The data is a mathematical graph consisting of points in 3D space.

Are there any Java-based frameworks for creating 3D graphs in Java so that I can: 1. Plot points as spheres, 2. Connect some of the spheres with thin cylinders, 3. Draw flat triangles between some sets of three spheres?

Something like a molecule viewer, with the ability to insert 3D polygons.

Web searches seem to bring up either 3D mesh-plotting tools, "3D charts" (for "pretty representations of 2D/1D data); but I can't seem to find anything that is suited to my data.

I guess this could be done in Java 3D, but I'd prefer to use existing code so that I don't have to write code to manage user gestures (for rotation, etc.) and so that I can simply work with simple coordinates, rather than mapping into the transformation and scene-graph perspective of Java 3D.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 10032

Answers (5)

Martin Pernollet
Martin Pernollet

Reputation: 2315

I suggest you try http://github.com/jzy3d, which will really help you to do what you want. Regards, Martin

Upvotes: 8

timaschew
timaschew

Reputation: 16602

Here is a related answer of me: I have summary of existing tools and show a alternative option to create interactive charts with Gnuplot in a JPanel

Java 3D plot library?

Upvotes: 0

jb.
jb.

Reputation: 23955

We are thinking about integrating root (it's a scientific library C++ from CERN) with our Java app. But integrating C++ app in Java is a problem in itself.

EDIT: I was also pointed to JAS3, that is a scientific java lib that has 3d plots.

Upvotes: 0

Rafa de Castro
Rafa de Castro

Reputation: 2524

I don't know a good mathematical library that does representation in 3d but you can always export to a plain txt file and use good old gnuplot.

Upvotes: 0

CookieOfFortune
CookieOfFortune

Reputation: 13974

Well, if you have to end up doing a lot of it from scratch (Sorry, I don't know any libraries), you might want to try Processing. It's Java and might have some of the functionality you're looking for to start building a charting tool.

Upvotes: 3

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