Hello everyone, While struggling with the implementation of major features of FamilyTreeView, I headed back to my personal database. I tried out the TimeLines Map to trace how people moved around over generations. It’s a pretty useful addon (especially the animation feature is nice), but I thought …

[image] ztlxltl: Are you interested in the SpaceTimeCube addon? Should I continue developing it and make it available? This is certainly a novel way of visualising data so yes, I’m interested but, personally, I’d much rather you continued with FTV as your main focus. However, given: [ima…

[image] ztlxltl: Maybe you also have ideas for a 3D visualization that isn’t based on a map? There was an earlier discussion (I can’t find it now) about a 3D visualization in which the center person is at the center, their siblings and cousins are in concentric rings around them, ancestors an…

This is very cool! Personally, investing a lot of time on a project that depended on GooCanvas would be a waste. So much more could be done in modern Javascript and HTML.

[image] dsblank: So much more could be done in modern Javascript and HTML. @dsblank The first (unreleased) implementation of FTV used HTML, JS and CSS. At some point, I tried to run it on Windows, but I failed. If I recall correctly, I couldn’t figure out how to use something like WebKitGTK …

[image] ztlxltl: If there are any plans to integrate WebKit or a similar library that it is available on all major platforms into the Gramps installers, I would switch FTV and this SpaceTimeCube addon over to HTML, JS and CSS. Gramps did include WebKitGTK in the past to run the Geography view…

[image] Nick-Hall: For 2D graphics, we can continue to use Cairo for now. Are there any examples of 2d work using Cairo that has a modern look? All examples I’ve found are… uninspiring. I looked at the page for the CairoGraphics.org/examples . But EVERY link I checked had linkrot. Including …

The Deep Connections Graph is another possible 3D visualization. Plotting the Parent’s/in-laws’, self’s, spouse’s and children’s vital stats (Birth, marriage, death) in a time cube. Then seeing if Associations and Note linkages can be plotted somehow too. @kku used straight black lines to connect g…

[image] Nick-Hall: For 3D graphics, I would suggest using PyOpenGL inside a Gtk GLArea widget. It appears that Gtk4 is moving towards OpenGL and possibly Vulkan in the future. PyOpenGL is currently not included in the Windows installer. For now, I’ll stick with the current GooCanvas-based imp…

[image] emyoulation: [image] Nick-Hall: For 2D graphics, we can continue to use Cairo for now. Are there any examples of 2d work using Cairo that has a modern look? As far as I know, GooCanvas is based on Cairo so anything that can be drawn in GooCanvas can also be drawn with Cairo, al…

[image] emyoulation: Plotting the Parent’s/in-laws’, self’s, spouse’s and children’s vital stats (Birth, marriage, death) in a time cube. I’m not sure if I understand you correctly. Are you suggesting using three time axes, with each person being represented by a dot in the 3D cube based on t…

SpaceTimeCube and other 3D visualizations [concept discussion]

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SpaceTimeCube and other 3D visualizations [concept discussion]

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