Real Time Visualization of Physics Simulations

Abstract: When simulating physics, or other highly dynamic and complex phenom- ena, ¯nding and correcting bugs may be very complicated and tedious using common textual debugging tools. This is because of the fact that a certain state of the simulation seldom is expressible in text and numbers so that it can be fully comprehended, let alone dynamic changes in the simulation state. This thesis proposes a way of capturing dynamic data from a simula- tion and displaying it in an appropriate view for both graphical and textual exploration. The proposed method aims at being generic enough for trans- ferring any kind of simulation data, although the main driving force is to be able to display information from dynamics simulations.