Dinosaur Track Viewer

The dinosaur track viewer is a project made initially by Josh Tveite in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Gatesy and Morgan Turner to do 3D interactive visualization in the Yurt of their work studying the creation of dinosaur tracks.

The primary input to the program is a datafile containing a list of points on separate lines. Each line contains an integer for the ID of the point and then a series of xyz coordinates over time (all represented as standard text decimals, separated by spaces). There are also a number of optional inputs to show separate features, such as a list of triangles to show the surface, a list of particle IDs to show the pathlines of initially, and sets of particles that are in the same cluster. All of these input files can be specified in a config file fed to the program, of the form "Key=Value".

The process to generate all of these inputs from the raw data is specified at Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess.

A list of controls (which do change somewhat frequently) is available at Dinosaur Track Viewer/Controls.

The source code is currently stored in a private github repository. Email Josh (jtveite@gmail.com) for access.