Frog: The fast & realistic OpenGL event displayer
Abstract
FROG [1] [2] is a generic framework dedicated to visualisation of events in high energy physics experiment. It is suitable to any particular physics experiment or detector design. The code is light (< 3 MB) and fast (browsing time ~ 20 events per second for a large High Energy Physics experiment) and can run on various operating systems, as its object-oriented structure (C++) relies on the cross-platform OpenGL[3] and Glut [4] libraries. Moreover, Frog does not require installation of heavy third party libraries for the visualisation. This documents describes the features and principles of Frog version 1.106, its working scheme and numerous functionalities such as: 3D and 2D visualisation, graphical user interface, mouse interface, configuration files, production of pictures of various format, integration of personal objects, etc. Finally the application of FROG for physic experiment/environement, such as Gastof, CMS, ILD, Delphes will be presented for illustration.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Conference Series
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0901.2718
- Bibcode:
- 2010JPhCS.219d2049Q
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 26 pages, 15 figures