new Naiad memory visualization data
minimal Naiad memory visualization, 2011-01-27
I’ve finished another manual pass through the minimal Naiad subject memory, and have generated another set of graph data for the Walrus 3D visualizer. There are 8,628 objects and 28,449 connections, in a memory that is 281,604 bytes in size. Try exploring around the space; please let me know if you find anything odd. :) You can watch a sample exploration session, too:
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27 January 2011 at 5:47 pm
Is there a way to port the code to generate it to pharo or squeak?
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27 January 2011 at 5:58 pm
Hi Javier… I wrote the code for writing the graph as an extension to the Squeak virtual machine simulator. It will be part of the Spoon 3 release on 20 March. Thanks!
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28 January 2011 at 9:18 pm
I’ve given Walrus a more than reasonable chunk of time. It needs OpenGL, JDK, Java3D, and then execution on PC or Linux, because it can’t work on Mac. Walrus hasn’t been updated since 2005; Java3D since 2008. OpenGL is odd on Windows; Java (to me) is odd on Linux.
Could you perhaps say something about the rig that produced these pictures?
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28 January 2011 at 11:26 pm
Hm, that’s weird, I’ve only ever used it on MacOSX (starting in 2007), and that’s where I use it now. You tried it there and it didn’t work? I produce the graph file from the simulator, and just open it up like any other graph file in Walrus, nothing tricky.
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29 January 2011 at 3:52 am
I’d better look again. I didn’t even try it on the Mac, as there was some warning warding me off to other OSes. I’ll check again.
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29 January 2011 at 4:21 am
OK, I got it. I swear the documentation was very down on Mac.
Download the zip. Enter that directory with Terminal. Execute:
java -cp mp.jar:antlrall-mod.jar:libsea.jar:walrus.jar H3Main
and it comes right up. I can explore the graph. I haven’t been able to make a node a turn red yet and identify itself, as in the movie. I’ll play with it.
Thanks!
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29 January 2011 at 7:20 am
Cool! And there should be a shell script in there called “walrus” that does that for you. So it’s just ‘./walrus &’.
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29 January 2011 at 4:32 am
SystemPreferences>Mouse>Button3
gives me a mouse that makes nodes turn red. They all have the same name: “F”.
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29 January 2011 at 7:29 am
Oh, turning the labels on is definitely a clunky part of the Walrus UI. Select “description” from the “Node Label” menu, then select “Update” from the “Rendering” menu. I think that was buried somewhere in the documentation, or maybe I just found it by playing around.
The gestures I use most are:
left-button-drag to pan
right-button-click to put a node in the center
shift-right-button-click to show a label
shift-middle-button-click to hide subtrees rooted at a node
comma to zoom out
period to zoom in
and I usually have the coordinate axes turned off.
I found a nice little program for the Mac called “BetterTouchTool” that gives me programmable middle-button events from trackpads and mice.
Thanks!
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29 January 2011 at 9:00 pm
It all works and it’s surprisingly addictive. I think I’ll be playing with it for a while. Thanks.
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29 January 2011 at 9:04 pm
Cool! Thanks again for exploring.
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18 September 2012 at 12:29 pm
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