Students: Oskar Brüning, Jack Holloway, Adnan Sulejmanpasic
March 6, 2002
We would like to build an extension to MATLAB*P visualization package to support the viewing of distributed data structures. We propose adding the support to several preexisting MATLAB routines such as plot3, fill3, mesh and surface.
We will divide the work so that each one of us gets a function or two that we would like to add support for. We assume that this task is big enough for three people, since we can always add more bells and whistles to these graphing routines once we get the main core of the project to work. For example, interface and compatibility with the existing MATLAB GUI for figures would be a very useful feature.
The next step of our project will include an investigation of available graphics packages that could suite our needs and pros and cons associated with each one of them. OpenGL, for example, has not been very easy to use and get to work in a multiprocessor environment. Once we decided on the graphics toolbox, we'll proceed with creating a simple routine for visualizing 2D distributed matrix. This should be complicated enough to address all the issues associated with the fact that MATLAB*P matrices are distributed amongst multiple machines.