Extra dimensions: 3D in PDF documentation
Abstract
Experimental science is replete with multi-dimensional information which is often poorly represented by the two dimensions of presentation slides and print media. Past efforts to disseminate such information to a wider audience have failed for a number of reasons, including a lack of standards which are easy to implement and have broad support. Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) has in recent years become the de facto standard for secure, dependable electronic information exchange. It has done so by creating an open format, providing support for multiple platforms and being reliable and extensible. By providing support for the ECMA standard Universal 3D (U3D) file format in its free Adobe Reader software, Adobe has made it easy to distribute and interact with 3D content. By providing support for scripting and animation, temporal data can also be easily distributed to a wide, non-technical audience. We discuss how the field of radiation imaging could benefit from incorporating full 3D information about not only the detectors, but also the results of the experimental analyses, in its electronic publications. In this article, we present examples drawn from high-energy physics, mathematics and molecular biology which take advantage of this functionality. Furthermore, we demonstrate how 3D detector elementsmore »
- Authors:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1260044
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-REPRINT-2016-020
Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Instrumentation
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 01; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; data processing methods; simulation methods and programs; large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; computing (architecture, farms, GRID for recording, storage, archiving, and distribution of data)
Citation Formats
Graf, Norman A. Extra dimensions: 3D in PDF documentation. United States: N. p., 2011.
Web. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/6/01/C01053.
Graf, Norman A. Extra dimensions: 3D in PDF documentation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/6/01/C01053
Graf, Norman A. Tue .
"Extra dimensions: 3D in PDF documentation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/6/01/C01053. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1260044.
@article{osti_1260044,
title = {Extra dimensions: 3D in PDF documentation},
author = {Graf, Norman A.},
abstractNote = {Experimental science is replete with multi-dimensional information which is often poorly represented by the two dimensions of presentation slides and print media. Past efforts to disseminate such information to a wider audience have failed for a number of reasons, including a lack of standards which are easy to implement and have broad support. Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) has in recent years become the de facto standard for secure, dependable electronic information exchange. It has done so by creating an open format, providing support for multiple platforms and being reliable and extensible. By providing support for the ECMA standard Universal 3D (U3D) file format in its free Adobe Reader software, Adobe has made it easy to distribute and interact with 3D content. By providing support for scripting and animation, temporal data can also be easily distributed to a wide, non-technical audience. We discuss how the field of radiation imaging could benefit from incorporating full 3D information about not only the detectors, but also the results of the experimental analyses, in its electronic publications. In this article, we present examples drawn from high-energy physics, mathematics and molecular biology which take advantage of this functionality. Furthermore, we demonstrate how 3D detector elements can be documented, using either CAD drawings or other sources such as GEANT visualizations as input.},
doi = {10.1088/1748-0221/6/01/C01053},
journal = {Journal of Instrumentation},
number = 01,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2011},
month = {Tue Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2011}
}