Overall
Sometimes, you need to understand a volume of space.
For ARDI, this comes up most often when you have measurements that are spread over 2D space, and you’d like to present your data over time in a way that preserves your assets spatial relationship with one-another, or you’d like to understand live values distributed across a 3D environment.
Visualising a volume of space can be complicated, since you can only really see the outer surface of the data – we need to use creative visualisation techniques to allow you to see inside.
The demo report can be found in our blast furnace demo site.
Example
In the example, we’re looking at temperatures over time in a system that has a 6×8 grid of temperature sensors. Since the sensors are already spread across 2 dimensions, adding time to the report makes it three-dimensional – meaning we need to see into a volume.
This volumetric display method allows you to see the surfaces created at the boundaries between values. Initially, your 3D space is a solid block – you can only see the outside edges.
But by adjusting the upper and lower thresholds, you can see the patterns and shapes within your volume of space.
For example, you can view the surface between 640 and 650 degrees to see ripples, bumps and other ‘structures’ that appear over time.
Warning
This visualisation uses some advanced features of modern video cards. As such, old or very basic systems may not be able to view these correctly.
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