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Here\'s a little bit of information on what you can see if you enable the graphics (Windows only so far):
The central 3D chart displays real simulation data: You can see the average infectiousness of human hosts, by age group and over time. Everything else is not directly related to the science application. The background is inspired by photographs of African landscapes, with mosquitoes flying around.
Infectiousness of the human host refers to the process of a mosquito biting a human picking up parasites from the blood. We define it as the proportion of mosquitoes getting infected while feeding at random on human individuals within an age group. The values are therefore between 0 and 1.
We display it by age and time because we needed a 3-dimensional plot at the center... The data is aggregated by age following the age groups used in the simulation output. Younger ages usually have narrower groups. The number of groups displayed is currently fixed. (This can create interesting displays for some of the simulated scenarios.)
The data is updated every 6 simulation intervals, where an interval covers 5 days.
The graphics were developed by Jasenko Zivanov, a student at University of Basel. Jaz worked on this project as a summer student in 2005. Before that he designed the LHC@home screensaver.
If you use the \"Show graphics\" button, you have some control over the display. Here\'s a short reference:
Mouse:
left key hold to rotate
right key hold to zoom
Key Bindings:
t: toggle soft shadows
a: stop time of day
w: resume daily cycle, fast forward
s: save a screenshot in the current slot directory
f: toggle soft chart display
space: full screen landscape
m: mosquito cam!
The effect of \"t\" is quite subtle, and on some displays it\'s hard to make out a difference. \"f\" smooths the chart in the direction of the age-axis, this one should be visible as soon as there is some data to be displayed.
Nick
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Information assembled by Krunchin-Keith from posts by Nick in other threads, for your easy reading.
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Cool! Thanks for posting this. It\'s one of my favorite BOINC graphics. :)
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Here\'s a little bit of information on what you can see if you enable the graphics (Windows only so far):
The central 3D chart displays real simulation data: You can see the average infectiousness of human hosts, by age group and over time. Everything else is not directly related to the science application. The background is inspired by photographs of African landscapes, with mosquitoes flying around.
Infectiousness of the human host refers to the process of a mosquito biting a human picking up parasites from the blood. We define it as the proportion of mosquitoes getting infected while feeding at random on human individuals within an age group. The values are therefore between 0 and 1.
We display it by age and time because we needed a 3-dimensional plot at the center... The data is aggregated by age following the age groups used in the simulation output. Younger ages usually have narrower groups. The number of groups displayed is currently fixed. (This can create interesting displays for some of the simulated scenarios.)
The data is updated every 6 simulation intervals, where an interval covers 5 days.
The graphics were developed by Jasenko Zivanov, a student at University of Basel. Jaz worked on this project as a summer student in 2005. Before that he designed the LHC@home screensaver.
If you use the \"Show graphics\" button, you have some control over the display. Here\'s a short reference:
Mouse:
left key hold to rotate
right key hold to zoom
Key Bindings:
t: toggle soft shadows
a: stop time of day
w: resume daily cycle, fast forward
s: save a screenshot in the current slot directory
f: toggle soft chart display
space: full screen landscape
m: mosquito cam!
The effect of \"t\" is quite subtle, and on some displays it\'s hard to make out a difference. \"f\" smooths the chart in the direction of the age-axis, this one should be visible as soon as there is some data to be displayed.
Nick
Project Scientist
Information assembled by Krunchin-Keith from posts by Nick in other threads, for your easy reading.
Thank you Nick (and Krunchin-Keith - That certainly helps! Now if they would simply put those instructions on the Graphic Screen itself, ala Climate Predictions and and slow down the Day Vs Night rotation, it would be great.
Thanks very much
Stacey Baird
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I can't see any graphic by this project. Why ? I like those graphics
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That all sounds pretty cool! Any idea if there will be graphics available for us mac users any time soon?
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Sorry, at the moment we don't have anyone working on the graphics.
The code is available in case anyone's interested in getting it running again, though it will need a bit of work (it depends on several headers within trunk/include, which have been moved about a lot).
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Still noone of the team at the graphics/screensaver working?
That's quite sad. I really miss that one, it was one of the best and most innovative in the BOINC universe.....
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The odd thing about the no longer functional graphics for this project is that the files needed to make them work are still there. If you look in the malaria control part of the Boinc folder you will see that the files for the Sun, Moon, Sky and African Landscape that went into the old grahpics/screensaver are still present. They just don't work anymore for some reason.
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