Mesh Compression

Modular Visualization Environment - 2

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Modular Visualisation Environment 2 by University of West Bohemia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Modular Visualization Environment 2 (MVE-2) project is based on .NET Technology. It is developed by a small group of (MSc and PhD) students. The aim of our effort is to offer a general (modular-oriented) platform for research and education.

News

MVE video tutorial is now available

Matrin Matas has created a series of tutorial videos to introduce the basic concepts of MVE, you can view the following chpaters: We hope you'll find the videos useful.

MVE video tutorial is now available (in czech only)

You can learn the basics of MVE by watching the 88 minute video tutorial. You will learn how to
  • Donwload and install MVE
  • Run existing maps, construct your own maps
  • Add your own modules
  • etc.
You can download the tutorial here. The english version will be available soon in much better quality.

MVE-2 2.0 released on April 22nd 2010

After six years of development we finally have a release version of MVE-2, with only a few changes from the last release candidate:
  • Improved stability
  • New rendering module based on XNA (SimpleXNARenderer)
  • New sorting of modules
You can download the binaries from the downloads section.

Together with the MVE-2 we are also releasing the Dynamic Mesh Compression Toolkit, which can be downloaded from the module repository page.


MVE-2 RC2 released on March 8th 2010

Today we have released the second RC version of MVE-2. It's main features are:
  • Improved GUI
    • better module progress reporting
    • direct export of experiment data into MS Excel
    • improved module view with support for categorization
  • Improved module grouping
  • Adding user-created module groups into module view
  • Automatic backup of experiment results
  • Easy to use backup recovery
You can download the binaries from the downloads section.


MVE-2 RC1 released on February 19th 2009

Today we have released the first RC version of MVE-2. It's main features are:
  • Revamped and largely expanded visualisation library, now contains
    • General calculator module
    • iso-surface extraction module
    • volume and surface data cutting modules
    • Streamline module
    • Tube module
    • General binary data loader module
    • ... and much more
  • New version of the DirectX based renderer (UnstrGridRendering)
  • Added "map program" feature
  • New slice renderer for volume data
  • New set of example maps
You can download the binaries from the downloads section.



MVE-2 Beta5 released on April 2nd 2007

Today we have released the fifth Beta version of MVE-2. It's main features are:
  • Addded Experimentlog
  • Improved module view
  • Improved GUI
  • Improved console output
  • Included renderers
You can download the binaries from the downloads section, source code of the Visualisation library as well as some other useful libraries will be released within a few days.



Visualization and Strings libraries updated (17.7.2006)

The new version supports user tags (UserTags property). The updated Strings library fixes some bugs with xml serialization. You can download the binaries in the Modules repository page. We appologise to all who have been waiting for this version for longer than expected.


Module library requirements specified

A new document has been created specifying the requirements for modules that are submitted to the module repository.


MeshLS updated

The MeshLS library has been updated. It now provides an input port for the loader, and it allows loading mesh geometry from WRL files. You can download the new version from module repository.


MVE-2 Beta4 released on June 6th 2006

Today we have released the fourth Beta version of MVE-2. It's main features are:
  • Improved stability
  • Reorganised module structure
  • Improved GUI
  • Support for early map run termination
  • New example showing how to create modules for MVE-2
  • Improved automatic saving of module settings
You can download the binaries from the downloads section, source code of the Visualisation library as well as some other useful libraries will be released within a few days.

 
 

MVE-2 Beta3 released on 15.12.2005

Today we have released the third Beta version of MVE-2. It's main features are:
  • The code uses the .NET Framework 2.0.
  • Order of ports can be changed in GUI by right mouse drag.
  • Inconsistent maps can now be partially opened (for example when names of ports are changed etc.) and fixed in GUI.
  • Help files are now available from the help menu.
  • Modules can now be moved from the module view to a map by drag'n'drop.
  • Automatic setups for modules were improved, including Grouped modules.
  • GUI candy was added (toolbar, last opened files in the file menu).
  • MMdoc now tells the user where comments are omitted.
  • Visualization library was improved (now contains CurveRenderer module, sources of transformation matrices etc.) and some bugs were fixed.
  • Examples library now contains a simple DirectX based renderer (a more powerful renderer is being developped).
  • Modules with multiple input ports now may update the inputs in separate threads, which leads to parallel processing of some types of maps.
You can download the binaries from the downloads section, source code of the Visualisation library as well as some other useful libraries will be released within a few days.

MVE-2 Beta2 release (29.6.2005)

We made several modification to a MVE-2 system recently. The module API is now more user friendly with some implicit implementation of Write/ReadConfig and InvokeSetup methods. Thus there is not necessary to write them manually in simple modules. This change do not affect modules with explicit implementation of these methods.

There is also a small change in GUI which now may display a progress bar of module execution. Author of a module just have to call ProgressInfo method and the computation progress is displayed in user friendly manner.

We also have several modification in MMDoc, which now can extract and display even more information from a module librariy.

MVE-2 Beta1 release (6.6.2005)

After extensive alpha testing we are happy to announce a release of Beta1 version of MVE-2. By the "Beta" code we would like to encourage other developers to try to implement their own MVE-2 modules. Because without useful modules the MVE-2 is just a void land.

We have decided to release source code of Visualization and Numercis module/data-structure library to make it possible for external contributors to extend functionality of "standard" libraries.

Together with Beta1 we also release the most of modules created in frame of Graphical System and Data Visualization course. See the Modules repository page.

Project supported by MSMT project 235200005 and Microsoft Research 2003-178