[rrd-developers] RRDtool to another level - add 3D and 4D capabilities -

[George Barnett]

Stefan,

If you are after excellent visual style guides, I would highly  
recommend reading Edward Tufte.  He has some fantastic books on  
visualisation of data.

Regards,

George

On 15 Dec 2008, at 20:04, Tobias Oetiker wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> cool new stuff should be discused on rrd-developers ...
>
> are you planning on implementing something like this ?
>
> Today Stefan Parvu wrote:
>
>> Morning,
>>
>> Not sure if this is the correct place to ask but here are some  
>> comments
>> after long talks with Dr. Neil Gunther, http://www.perfdynamics.com/
>> about how can we better see and display metrics from different  
>> systems.
>> 2D might be enough for majority of cases but not good enough. Adding
>> 3D and 4D realism to our collected data we could better see and
>> understand our workloads.
>>
>> Has anyone considered looking into:
>>
>> - Barycentric Visualizer http://www.perfdynamics.com/Tools/tools.html
>> - Barry 3D, 4D http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/barry007.pdf
>>   http://www.perfdynamics.com/cmg.html#tth_sEc1
>>
>> An important addition to RRDtool would be to bring multidimensional
>> behavior to our collected data using BarryN plotting. This would mean
>> to be possible to have rrdtool to plot directly BarryN graphs  
>> (animated gif, or simple a mov etc)
>>
>> Comments ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> stefan
>>
>> Stefan Parvu
>> Blog: http://stefanparvu.blogspot.com
>>
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