TIM (Things In Motion) Use this application to facilitate the visualization of time-series positional data
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Use this application to facilitate the visualization of time-series positional data TIM (Things In Motion) is a set of related programs whose goal is to facilitate the visualization of time-series positional data. The data to be displayed can be either read from an existing file, or they can be generated by a simulation process and asynchronously displayed by a visualization process as the data are being generated. The visualization and simulation processes do not need to run on the same system; this allows the simulation process to be run on a large remote "number-cruncher", while the visualization can be done on a local system.TIM uses DIVERSE's dpf and dtk modules to allow the data to be viewed on systems ranging from a laptop to a multi-screen immersive display such as a CAVE(tm).TIM reads data from two related files- an objects file and a frames file.Before processing, each file is normalized as follows:· Everything including and after a pound sign (#) is discarded, enabling comments· Multiple spaces and TABs are treated as a single space, and leading and trailing spaces are ignored· Resulting blank lines are ignored· A back-slash () can be used to include spaces and pound signs in file names, by preceeding the space or pound sign by a back-slashThe frames file contains positional data for the items listed in the objects file. Each line contains seven space-delimited floating point numbers. The first three numbers represent an (X, Y, Z) translation, where +Y goes straight ahead, +Z goes up and +X goes to the right. The last four numbers represent an (X, Y, Z, W) quaternion rotation in the same coordinate space.

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