StuDraw3DEvent C++ class

The new class StuDraw3DEvent implementation (StEventUtilities package) is available from STAR "dev" area. It provides the simple way to visualize the event primitives in 3D quickly against of the STAR detector geometry.

The main advantage of the class is it is "self-sufficient" and ready-to-use "on demand".

For example,

The STAR ONLINE EventDisplay is the stand-alone application. To use it one has to provide the file in the special DAQ format and launch that application.
STAR offline EventDisplay is the instance of the STAR StMaker class. As such it can be used from within the STAR production chain only.
It can not be used from the non-"chain" applications easily.

The new C++ class can be used directly from any C++ application, from the ROOT Cint interpreter and even from the gdb UNIX debugger break point as needed. It can be used to customize the STAR applications mentioned above also. On the other hands it is backed by the same well-known poweful 3D engine; and it shares with the full-fledged STAR 3D applications the powerfull and flexible GUI interface. The GUI interface is described "STAR visualization and plotting" by "Offline Event Display" and "Star Geometry Browser" links.

The base StDraw3D class is a controller connecting the arbitrary "model" object to the arbitrary ROOT 3D class "view" object to implement the so-called "Model / View" paradigm. In our case, the "Model" is an arbitrary object and the "View" is an instance of some ROOT 3D class. To render views the StDraw3D instantiates the TCanvas and TVirtualViewer3D to allow the user select interactively the "view" instance and invoke the model methods like:

TObject::Inspect() to inspect the model data-member values;
TObject::GetObjectInfo to label the view with the current model information;
TVirtualPadEditor to set the model attributes.

For example, StuDraw3DEvent class applies:

"Model" - StTrack , "View" - TPolyLine3D
"Model" StHitCollection, "View" - TPolyMarker3D

To see how it works, you need two things to do

Create the custom ".rootrc" file to turn the Qt-layer on

    stardev	
    ln -s  $STAR/QtRoot/qtExamples/QtGBrowser/.rootrc

Execute the ROOT macros

	
  > root.exe Draw3D.C

You should get the picture

. One is advised to switch from the "perspective" view to the "parallel" one

The Draw3D.C macro is 3 lines long:

	
void Draw3D()
{
   gROOT->Macro("Load.C");
   gEventDisplay->Draw3DTest();
}

The StDraw3D::Draw3DTest should give you a clue how the class can be used

 
 void StDraw3D::Draw3DTest(){

   float xyz[] = { 189.195,       27.951,       123.966
                 ,187.195,       28.6187,       122.89
                 ,181.195       ,30.6788       ,119.556
                 ,179.195       ,31.3387       ,118.454
                 ,177.195       ,32.0065       ,117.328
                 ,175.195       ,32.6132       ,116.26
                 ,173.195       ,33.2385       ,115.146
                 ,171.195       ,33.8552       ,114.016
                 ,169.195       ,34.3924       ,112.964
         };

   int sizeXYZ = sizeof(xyz)/sizeof(float)/3;
   fprintf(stderr," %d %p\n", sizeXYZ,xyz);
   // Draw the 3D polymarkers
   Draw3D(sizeXYZ,xyz);
   SetComment("The hits from the TPC sector");

   // Draw the 3D polyline
   Line(sizeXYZ,xyz,kPrimaryTrack);
   SetComment("The recontstructed track");
}

To draw the components (tracks, hits etc) of the StEvent,

use the ROOT session like

 
 root.exe   # or "root4star", do  NOT use just "root". "root" is a shell script that  can screw the environment
   root[0] .x Load.C
   root[1] .x bfc.C(0,"doevents","st_physics_6048025_raw_1020002.event.root"); 
   root[2]  // One can use any other chain parameters instead of "doevents" above
   root[3] chain->MakeEvent();                 // to read the next event
   root[4] StEvent *event = chain->GetDataSet("StEvent");   // Access the StEvent pointer
   root[5] gEventDisplay->SetBkColor(kWhite);  // Change the backgorund color
   root[6] gEventDisplay->Tracks(event);       // Draw the tracks

Replacing the last statement with

 
   root[5] gEventDisplay->Tracks(event,primary);  // to draw the tracks

should produce another picture:

Invocation of the

 
root.exe [6]  gEventDisplay->Clear();                    // Clear the previous picture
root.exe [7]  gEventDisplay->Hits(event,kUsedHitsTracks);// Draw tracks and its his

will show the image:

To hide the detector geometry components and improve the "display" response time one can change the Coin widget attributes from "As Is" to "Points" to do that

Click with the "right mouse button" over the OpenGL widget working area;
Select from the Coint "Context menu"
"Draw Styles> -> "Still darwstyle" -> "Points"
or
"Draw Styles> -> "Animating drawstyle" -> "Points"
to get the low resolution picture (see below)
To restore the original view you can always use the same menu and select "As Is" position there.

How to change the widget view to hide the detector geometry

Original "as is" view	Coin3D "Context menu"	"Points" view

Here you are the StuDraw3DEvent (see STAR CVS also) class API including the methods from the base StDraw3D (see STAR CVS also) class.
The definitions of the ROOT color and marker style attributes are provided by the TAttMarker C++ class documentation.

StuDraw3DEvent C++ class API

enum EDraw3DStyle {kVtx,kPrimaryTrack,kGlobalTrack,kUsedHit,kUnusedHit,kTrackBegin,kTrackEnd,kUser};

class StuDraw3DEvent : public StDraw3D {

     StuDraw3DEvent(TVirtualPad *pad = 0); // "by default" (pad=0) the new viewer is to be created automatically

               // Draw StEvent "StTrack" object with the ROOT color, style, size attributes
     virtual TObject *Track(const StTrack &track
                  ,  Color_t col
                  ,  Style_t sty= Style_t(-1)
                  ,  Size_t siz = Size_t (-1));
               // Draw StEvent "StTrack" object with the predefined attrbutes

     virtual TObject *Track(const StTrack &track, EDraw3DStyle sty=kPrimaryTrack);

               // Draw StEvent "StMeasuredPoint" object  (like StHit, StVertex) with the ROOT color, style, size attributes
     virtual TObject *Hit(const StMeasuredPoint &hit
                  ,  Color_t col
                  ,  Style_t sty= Style_t(-1)
                  ,  Size_t siz = Size_t (-1));

               // Draw StEvent "StMeasuredPoint" object  (like StHit, StVertex) with the predefined attrbutes
               // This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.

     virtual TObject *Hit(const StMeasuredPoint &hit, EDraw3DStyle sty=kUsedHit);

               // Draw StEvent "StMeasuredPoint" object  (like StHit, StVertex) with the ROOT color, style, size attributes
               // This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.

     virtual TObject *Vertex(const StMeasuredPoint &hit
                  ,  Color_t col
                  ,  Style_t sty= Style_t(-1)
                  ,  Size_t siz = Size_t (-1));

               // Draw StEvent "StMeasuredPoint" object  (like StHit, StVertex) with the predefined attributes
               // This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.

     virtual TObject *Vertex(const StMeasuredPoint &hit, EDraw3DStyle sty=kVtx);
     virtual TObject *TrackInOut(const StTrack &track, Bool_t in
                  ,  Color_t col= Color_t(-1)
                  ,  Style_t sty= Style_t(-1)
                  ,  Size_t siz = Size_t (-1));
     virtual TObject *TrackInOut(const StTrack &track, EDraw3DStyle sty=kUsedHit, Bool_t in=kTRUE);

               // Draw the array of the float coordinates with ROOT TPolyMarker3D class and the predefined attributes

     virtual TObject *Points(int n, const float *xyz,  EDraw3DStyle sty);

               // Draw the array of the float coordinates with ROOT TPolyMarker3D class and the ROOT color, style, size attributes

     virtual TObject *Points(int n, const float *xyz
         ,  Color_t col= Color_t(-1)
         ,  Style_t sty= Style_t(-1)
         ,  Size_t siz = Size_t (-1));

               // Draw ONE 3D marker with ROOT TPolyMarker3D class and the ROOT color, style, size attributes
     virtual TObject *Point(float x, float y, float z
         ,  Color_t col= Color_t(-1)
         ,  Style_t sty= Style_t(-1)
         ,  Size_t siz = Size_t (-1));

               // Draw ONE 3D marker with ROOT TPolyMarker3D class and the predefined attrbutes

     virtual TObject *Point(float x, float y, float z,  EDraw3DStyle sty);

               // Draw the array of the float coordinates with ROOT TPolyLine3D class and the ROOT color, style, size attributes

     virtual TObject *Line(int n,  const float *xyz
         ,  Color_t col= Color_t(-1)
         ,  Style_t sty= Style_t(-1)
         ,  Size_t siz = Size_t (-1));

               // Draw the array of the float coordinates with ROOT TPolyLine3D class and the predefined attributes

     virtual TObject *Line(int n,  const float *xyz,  EDraw3DStyle sty);
   
               // Draw the test example
     void Draw3DTest();
};

To report the bug use STAR Bug report facility

Valeri Fine
(fine at bnl dot gov )