MegaMol is a visualization middleware used to visualize point-based molecular data sets. This software is developed within the Collaborative Research Center 716, subproject D.3 at the Visualization Research Center (VISUS) of the University of Stuttgart and at the Computer Graphics and Visualization Group of the TU Dresden.

MegaMol succeeds MolCloud, which has been developed at the University of Stuttgart in order to visualize point-based data sets. MegaMol is written in C++, and uses an OpenGL as Rendering-API and GLSL-Shader. It supports the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Linux, each in 64-bit version. In large parts, MegaMol is based on VISlib, a C++-class library for scientific visualization, which has also been developed at the University of Stuttgart.

Manual

See the manual for detailed instructions on how to build and use MegaMol.

License

See the license file.

Citing MegaMol

Please use one of the following methods to reference the MegaMol project.

MegaMol – A Comprehensive Prototyping Framework for Visualizations
P. Gralka, M. Becher, M. Braun, F. Frieß, C. Müller, T. Rau, K. Schatz, C. Schulz, M. Krone, G. Reina, T. Ertl
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, vol. 227, no. 14, pp. 1817-1829, 2019
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2019-800167-5

BibTeX

@Article{Gralka2019MegaMol,
  author    = {Patrick Gralka and Michael Becher and Matthias Braun and Florian Frie{\ss} and Christoph M{\"u}ller and Tobias Rau and Karsten Schatz and Christoph Schulz and Michael Krone and Guido Reina and Thomas Ertl},
  journal   = {The European Physical Journal Special Topics},
  title     = {{MegaMol} {\textendash} a comprehensive prototyping framework for visualizations},
  year      = {2019},
  month     = {mar},
  number    = {14},
  pages     = {1817--1829},
  volume    = {227},
  issn      = {1951-6401},
  doi       = {10.1140/epjst/e2019-800167-5},
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}},
}

MegaMol – A Prototyping Framework for Particle-based Visualization
S. Grottel, M. Krone, C. Müller, G. Reina, T. Ertl
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 201-214, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2350479

BibTeX

@Article{Grottel2015MegaMol,
  author    = {Sebastian Grottel and Michael Krone and Christoph M{\"u}ller and Guido Reina and Thomas Ertl},
  journal   = {{IEEE} Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  title     = {{MegaMol}{\textemdash}A Prototyping Framework for Particle-Based Visualization},
  year      = {2015},
  month     = {feb},
  number    = {2},
  pages     = {201--214},
  volume    = {21},
  issn      = {1077-2626}
  doi       = {10.1109/tvcg.2014.2350479},
  publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})},
}

Coherent Culling and Shading for Large Molecular Dynamics Visualization
S. Grottel, G. Reina, C. Dachsbacher, T. Ertl
Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 953-962, 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01698.x

BibTeX

@Article{Grottel2010MegaMol,
  author    = {Sebastian Grottel and Guido Reina and Carsten Dachsbacher and Thomas Ertl},
  journal   = {Computer Graphics Forum},
  title     = {Coherent Culling and Shading for Large Molecular Dynamics Visualization},
  year      = {2010},
  month     = {aug},
  number    = {3},
  pages     = {953--962},
  volume    = {29},
  doi       = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01698.x},
  publisher = {Wiley},
}

Optimized Data Transfer for Time-dependent, GPU-based Glyphs
S. Grottel, G. Reina, T. Ertl
In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2009: 65 - 72, 2009
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2009.4906839

BibTeX

@InProceedings{Grottel2009MegaMol,
  author    = {S. Grottel and G. Reina and T. Ertl},
  booktitle = {2009 {IEEE} Pacific Visualization Symposium},
  title     = {Optimized data transfer for time-dependent, {GPU}-based glyphs},
  year      = {2009},
  month     = {apr},
  pages     = {65--72},
  doi       = {10.1109/pacificvis.2009.4906839},
}

MegaMol project website
https://megamol.org

BibTeX

@Misc{MegaMolWebsite,
  title        = {{MegaMol project website}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://megamol.org}},
}