Sake
Description
Sake is a GTK-based scientific visualization tool for multi-dimensional, time-dependent data. Currently it is capable of processing and displaying:
- Meshes
- Scalar and Vector Data mapped to a Mesh
- Polygonal Chains
- Bitmaps
Sake can be used to visualize data of scientific numerical simulations - for example results of a finite element method solver for partial differential equations.
Data can be read in by file reader methods supporting a small range of little-known file formats. Beyond that, Sake also provides a DBUS interface to display live data feeds received from external applications.
Sake started as a side-project of Kai and André while preparing their diploma thesis at the Chair for Applied Mathematics III of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Installation
Source
1. The installation procedure is rather typical of a Linux program except for the fact that we decided to replace the autotools build system with CMake.
2. First get the source! There are several ways:
- Get source from SVN
svn co https://web-yard.de/svn/sake/trunk sake
- Get source from release tarball
sake-0.2.9.r541.tar.bz2 Wonderboy prerelease
sake-0.2.tar.bz2 Edge on Fire
sake-0.1.tar.bz2 Frittatnsuppn
3. Build it:
cd sake/build cmake .. make && make install
If you wish to configure customized install paths, different compiler options or anything else that's considered non-default, you can easily configure your build using the more comfortable ncurses-based
ccmake ..
instead of
cmake ..
(Binary) Distribution Packages
Debian
Currently, there is no official package for gtkglextmm in Debian Testing, but this should be fixed soon (see Debian Request for Package). Until then you can use these debs (built for Debian Testing):
- libgtkglextmm1_1.2.0-1_i386.deb (thanks to Sebastian Lipponer!)
- sake_0.2.9.r541-1_i386.deb
Ubuntu
Suse 10.3
sake (and gtkglextmm) RPMs for Suse 10.3 can be found here
Gentoo
License
Sake is released under the GPL version 2.
