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Technology Onside: Quintic and PGI Tackle Real-time Football Analysis Heads-On
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Quintic helps Lloyd's Register Marine Services Keep Peril at Bay
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Graphical Data Analysis and Visualisation Projects
Quintic's CAD origins have provided us with a strong graphical background, which has since been developed to encompass niche skills in areas such as data analysis and visualisation, and graphical user interfaces. The concept of graphically visualising analysis data cuts across many of the projects we take on. Below is an example of the types of analysis and visualisation projects we have recently undertaken:
Football Match Analysis, Visualisation and Reporting Software Development
Performance Group International (PGI) is one of the world's premier Sports Technology solutions providers, offering products and services for sports analysis to sports organisations and the media. The company assists elite football clubs with match analysis review services, customised to suit specific requirements, by using expert consultants, coupled with sophisticated software. PGI commissioned Quintic to develop the DatatraX® Information Application (DIA), a football match data analysis, visualisation and reporting tool.
The DIA provides coaches and other interested parties with a wealth of real-time statistical data allied to an interactive simulated view of the match, with synchronised video footage. The software processes raw match data, providing a myriad of interactive replay options, as well as a huge amount of statistical information and analysis, presented in clearly structured, easily customisable, graphs and tables.
Development of a Portable Version of the Existing DatatraX Football Game Analysis and Visualisation System
This ongoing development project for PGI included the development of a light-weight version (DatatraX Lite) of the DatatraX football game analysis and visualisation system. The set-up includes 2 cameras and 1 PC, and does not require permanent or complex camera installations. The system captures real-time voice coded event and video data, with video analysis taking place post-match.
DatatraX® Lite Training Services
Quintic has also been asked by PGI to provide end user training services on the DatatraX Lite (light-weight version of the DatatraX football game analysis and visualisation system, developed by Quintic for PGI), which we delivered to users on-site.
Statistical Analysis Output for Website Content Generation
This project, part of the overall development of the DatatraX Football Game Analysis and Visualisation software, reused components of the implementation to generate real-time statistical analysis and graphics of game data which could be used by downstream systems to generate live data feeds and website content.
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Interactive 3D Visualisation: Porting of Magic Symbol™ "Augmented Reality" Software from Windows® to Apple Mac®
Ignition, a cutting-edge center of 3D expertise and technology, asked Quintic to port its latest development, a versatile interactive technology that allows people to display any 3D object on film, positioning it via a "magic symbol" held up to the camera, from Windows to Apple Mac.
The solution, a standalone Windows application, is constructed using a wide range of open source libraries which are integrated to provide an image processing tool. It can recognize patterns printed on cards that are held in front of a web cam. The software also determines the position and orientation of the card in space. It uses these two pieces of information to project a linked 3D image on top of the card. The whole process happens in real-time, providing an extremely intuitive method, allowing anyone to manipulate 3D models in space easily and quickly.
The project included porting of Windows FMC code to Mac Ox's UNFIX platform, utilizing third party products, such as AR Toolkit®, OpenSceneGraph®, OpenProducer® and others. The video rendering component of the software was ported using QuickTime®.
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Tools for Analysis and Visualisation of Ship Structure -
Key Functionality for Lloyd's Register Marine Division's Software Products
As part of its long-standing development partnership with Lloyd's Register (LR) of London, Quintic has developed many tools for LR's software suite in aid of ship classification which analyse and visually display complex ship structure. These include:
The "Panel Splitter" Tool: Splitting up Transverse Structure in Ships for Complex Assessment Tasks
This tool, developed by Quintic for LR's NSR®, ShipRight® and RulesCalc® products, takes the ability to define transverse structure (recently implemented in LR products by Quintic) and runs calculations which allow complex metal panels to be split up intelligently into plates for analysis. Transverse panels are used in ships for things like strengthening, flood control and tanks.
In order to analyse a panel and determine whether it is thick enough to withstand predicted forces, LR's software requires identification of plates between stiffeners, as the highest minimum thickness of any one of the constituent plates must be used for a panel as a whole. Often the stiffeners used are arranged in complex patterns and do not meet, making it difficult for the software to split panels into plates, especially as other structure, like flanges, must be taken into account.
Quintic developed a new algorithm to deal with this reality, and the functionality offers a very visual display of the analysis undertaken, and its results.
3D Ship Hull Design Import and Analysis
This tool, developed by Quintic for LR, is a specialised ship hull import tool, which allows users of ship design systems to load key data from a 3D IGES-based model of a ship's hull form into Lloyd's Special Service Craft (SSC) and NSR software. The import process automatically calculates and imports numerous longitudinal and transverse sectional views of the ship to support the classification process.
The result is displayed in a highly visual and interactive way in the import Wizard. The tool saves a vast amount of effort in terms of data input, and drastically reduces the overall classification time, facilitating increased design synthesis, and therefore producing a better quality result.
Implementation of Ship Design Rules and Regulations in Naval Ship Rules Software
LR also asked Quintic to implement recently updated complex rules and regulations published for the design, construction and lifetime maintenance of ships, offshore units and land-based installations, defined in Mathcad® worksheets, in its Naval Ship Rules (NSR) software. Quintic completed the project working closely with an expert ship engineer and a naval architectural consultancy. Work included a new definition of transverse structure inside a ship. The new tool looks at structure that runs across a ship, and visualises the result for the user. Designers can, for instance, evaluate the strength of selected panels with stiffeners, and view warnings where rules are not met.
"Longitudinal Corrugated Bulkhead" Wizard for Ship Design Rules Assessment Software
In order to meet more stringent ship design rules, Lloyd's Register asked Quintic to extend its ShipRight product, which previously only took account of a ship's transverse corrugated bulkheads, to assess its longitudinal equivalent.
As part of a major code refactoring exercise (coming to terms with existing code and rewriting it in such a way as to make it extensible), Quintic created a "Longitudinal Corrugated Bulkhead" wizard for entering information previously not captured, and wrote the code to generate a 3D view of the longitudinal structure.
Specification and Development of Graphics for Corrugated Bulkhead Functionality in Lloyd's Register's RulesCalc Software
This project required Quintic to work together with development and testing teams at LR and two other companies to implement the graphical elements for the design of corrugated bulkheads (dividing walls between tanks in ships) within LR's RulesCalc software. RulesCalc enables ship designers to quickly assess their designs against LR's Rules and Regulations for the classification of Ships and the IACS Common Structural Rules for Double Hull Oil, and the IACS Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers. For this project Quintic specified and developed a Wizard that allows designers to enter data to create, edit and visualise corrugated bulkheads. Views provided include longitudinal and transverse sectional views, and views of the ship's bulkhead. The RulesCalc calculation tool then highlights problem areas in the design.
Development of a Standalone 3D Ship Panel Visualisation Application
In this project LR asked Quintic to develop a standalone Open GL SSX visualisation application ("PanelView"), including the creation of sectioning and clipping tools. The tool was designed to work in several different Lloyd's Register applications, and allows users to view and graphically explore 3D models of ships.
Bracket Enhancements for Ship Design Rules Assessment Software
LR asked Quintic to develop a new tool to take into account design situations where a standard catalogue bracket could be placed between two stiffeners, but until the structure was actually built, exact angles would be unknown.
The tool analyses what happens to the shape of the bracket structure when angles etc. change, testing the limits of the design, producing valid shapes, with the ability to define bracket toe information and visualise the rough data as well as the detail.
Update to a "Buckling Analysis" Module for Assessing Ship Designs
LR also asked Quintic to implement changes to a "Buckling Analysis" Module in support of the Common Structural Rules for its ShipRight SDA software. The Buckling Analysis Module attempts to analyse how a ship, represented as a set of flat panels, responds to the stresses generated when the ship is bent. When sailing, the ship is bent in two directions: "Hogging" is when the ends of the ship bend downwards, because the middle of the ship is sitting on the crest of a wave, but its ends are in the troughs; "Sagging" is when the ends of the ship bend up, often because they are on wave crests, but the middle is in a trough between them. In particular, this module attempts to predict which panels will buckle (as opposed to snap, which is a different type of failure) for a given degree of bending. The original code read the panel data from a very large text file, which was generated by another part of the ShipRight SDA application. Users had to edit this file directly to "tweak" the data. Quintic's developers replaced the large text file with a large binary "panel database" file, and a dialog with which the user could look at individual panels and "tweak" the parameters if necessary.
Specification, Implementation and Testing of Requirements for a 3D Graphics Visualisation Tool
In this project Quintic used a Scene Graph library written by its developers for quickly displaying 3D data. Quintic developed a 3D graphics visualisation tool which provides users of Lloyds Register's ShipRight application with detailed viewing capabilities of not only a 3D model of a ship, but also the results of finite element analysis (FEA) on the model.
Development of Ship Voyage Simulation and Trading Pattern Analysis Software
Lloyd's Register Marine Division asked Quintic to completely rewrite a Ship Voyage Simulation module using C#. One of the challenges was to use the new language while ensuring that the Voyage module fit in seamlessly with the other modules written in a different language. The tool allows users to define voyages, also known as trading patterns, over a ship's lifecycle. Users set up the routes the ship will travel, assigning a percentage of time to each route. Once routes are defined, routes are processed together with the ship design parameters defined in an earlier module. The system then outputs the necessary information for the next step of a fatigue design assessment analysis. Quintic also incorporated a Global Information System (GIS) mapping component from ThinkGeo®.
Further project phases included the integration into Lloyd's Register's software products, modification to attain the look and feel of other modules, and investigations into implementing container ship specific trading routes and graphics updates.
Enhancement of OpenGL 3D Modelling Tool User Interface and Geometry Tools
Lloyd's Register Marine Division asked Quintic to enhance the user interface and optimise the interaction model of a 3D modelling tool. Quintic implemented a scene graph management engine to replace a commercial one, with the aim of reducing product cost and improving functionality. This included speed optimisation and improved interaction with LR ship design rule code, as well as refinements in ship contour mapping and in how the complex shapes in the fore and aft end of vessels are dealt with. The code written has been used in at least three LR products.
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