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Our graphics project was a 3D Visualization of the Hard Disk structure.
The program reads all directories and files in the computer then draws a 3D tree representing drives, folders, subfolders, and files in it. This is useful to show you how some locations in your computer are crowded while others are nearly empty! "I discovered some empty useless folders in my computer".
It also enables searching for specific folder/file and shows the result colored in the tree. Then by a click on it you get its path or some info about it. Or by a right click you can expand/collapse its children subfolders.
To draw a tree of 10+ levels with 300+ nodes in some levels, the openGL camera will not be able to show the whole scene. So we stopped drawing at level 5 with fixed level size of 6 nodes. However, the resulted tree was very big and we had to zoom-out a lot to get a viewable scene.
From the Graphics point of view, this was not a graphics project :D, because of the lack of models, textures, lighting and sound effects. We used only 1 texture for the background, and 2 models in the main menu for the 2 options: view and search. and I didn't find a reason to use lighting or sound since it's not a game. Files and folders were represented by colored cubes and tree edges were connected by simple lines.
The result was: a good idea with not-so-good interface. It was possible to make it better but there wasn't enough time :(
Here is a screen shot when some levels are collapsed:
Drives are blue, folders are orange, files are green
finally, Many thanks to
Dr. Omar Othman, Noran El-Kafrawy, Mohammad Fouad
for their help.
The program reads all directories and files in the computer then draws a 3D tree representing drives, folders, subfolders, and files in it. This is useful to show you how some locations in your computer are crowded while others are nearly empty! "I discovered some empty useless folders in my computer".
It also enables searching for specific folder/file and shows the result colored in the tree. Then by a click on it you get its path or some info about it. Or by a right click you can expand/collapse its children subfolders.
To draw a tree of 10+ levels with 300+ nodes in some levels, the openGL camera will not be able to show the whole scene. So we stopped drawing at level 5 with fixed level size of 6 nodes. However, the resulted tree was very big and we had to zoom-out a lot to get a viewable scene.
From the Graphics point of view, this was not a graphics project :D, because of the lack of models, textures, lighting and sound effects. We used only 1 texture for the background, and 2 models in the main menu for the 2 options: view and search. and I didn't find a reason to use lighting or sound since it's not a game. Files and folders were represented by colored cubes and tree edges were connected by simple lines.
The result was: a good idea with not-so-good interface. It was possible to make it better but there wasn't enough time :(
Here is a screen shot when some levels are collapsed:
Drives are blue, folders are orange, files are green
finally, Many thanks to
Dr. Omar Othman, Noran El-Kafrawy, Mohammad Fouad
for their help.
Cool! I've seen a similar idea on linux but using a 3D pie chart.
ReplyDeleteYou could've re-rendered sub-levels when user clicks on any level to avoid the stated problem.
Though it looks great (Y)
I think it's easier on Linux. While searching for a way to get the computer structure, I remember I found an easy way.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, after implementing the expand/collapse feature, we discovered that the problem is solvable .. bas kasselna nzabbat-ha b2a :D
Thanks a lot.