Architecture

ANTz immersive visualization tools for the mind.

The ultimate goal is close the cognitive loop between people and logic engines.

ANTz is a pseudo-state-machine implementation of a Neural Physics Engine(NPE). The runtime is synchronized to the video frame rate, though some functions execute over multiple frames, (hence it is pseudo). We organize the code using a custom MVC methodology.

MVC variant where View becomes a subset of the IO group:

• Model named 'data' - stores the data using our Native Scene Graph
• View named 'io' - includes keyboard, mice, haptic devices, audio, video...
• Control named 'ctrl' - event processing and scene state updated with the NPE

Four stage run-loop:

• Input data (including events) and process the data by setting scene states
• Update scene state using the NPE
• Draw the scene using OpenGL
• Output results to the screen and other devices (OSC network, database, etc.)

Development_Strategy

• Future features are tracked using 'enhancement' issues.
• Philosophy
• Performance

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Technical_Architecture

[Data] - Model

• Scene Graph based node tree with links
• Globals
• Track data mapped using channels

[io] - View

• OpenGL
• IO Devices
• File Types
• Database
• Keyboard, mouse and window events

[ctrl] - Control

• Command
• State_Machine
• Physics