Script for exporting 3d objects for Direct3D? - graphics

I've been reading Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11. Great title.
I would like to know, is there a script for exporting meshes, from standard 3D software, in the format bellow:
VertexCount: 31076
TriangleCount: 60339
VertexList (pos, normal)
{
0.592978 1.92413 -2.62486 0.572276 0.816877 0.0721907
0.571224 1.94331 -2.66948 0.572276 0.816877 0.0721907
0.609047 1.90942 -2.58578 0.572276 0.816877 0.0721907
...
}
TriangleList
{
0 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
...
}

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bar chart with 2 hierarchies in x-axis

I have a dataframe that looks like this
SP1-SP2 P1-P2 gmm Fowlkes Mallows kmeans Fowlkes Mallows
0 AFR-AMR ACB-CLM 0.883981 0.973784
1 AFR-AMR CLM-LWK 0.630063 0.649272
2 AFR-AMR ESN-MXL 0.944129 0.974126
3 AFR-EAS KHV-MSL 0.916021 0.960642
4 AFR-EUR CEU-ACB 0.892367 0.911122
5 AFR-EUR FIN-LWK 0.875518 0.886502
6 AFR-EUR GWD-GBR 0.934915 0.963250
7 AFR-EUR LWK-IBS 0.943654 0.974227
8 AFR-SAS YRI-PJL 0.646557 0.517052
9 AMR-AMR PEL-CLM 0.993127 0.996963
10 AMR-EAS CHS-MXL 0.886552 0.924213
And I wanted to create a chart with two x-axes, and I didn't find a way to do so.
Here is an example from google sheets
SP1-SP2 column is the main x-axes, P1-P2 is on each bar.
I don't care if it's with matplotlib or seaborn etc...
Thanks!

Understanding BLE characteristic values for cycle power measurement 0x2A63

I am currently using Dart/Flutter BLE plugin to better understand BLE devices.
Plugin:
https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/flutter_blue
When I connect to my virtual cycle trainer I select the 0x1818 service and then I subscribe to the 0x2A63 characteristic for Cycle Power Measurement.
I am struggling to align the response list I get with the GATT documentation for this service/characteristics below. There is 18 values in this list, however there is only 17 in the GATTS list. Also the values don't seem to make any sense.
I also tried to convert the first two values '52','24' to a 16 bit binary to see if that aligns with the flags for the first field, but the result was the below which again makes no sense.
0x3418 = 11010000011000
https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/gatt/viewer?attributeXmlFile=org.bluetooth.characteristic.cycling_power_measurement.xml
This screenshot is when I first connect to the trainer.
This screenshot is when I am cycling lightly on the bike
This screenshot is when I stop cycling but the pedals and wheel are still turning.
The cycle trainer is the Cycleops Magnus, which doesn't have the Cycle Speed Cadence service 1816, but can provide virtual speed based on power.
My Question is this:
Which of the values in the list corresponding with the GATTS
characteristics and bonus question is, how would I infer speed or
cadence from the values in this service?
Based on section 3.55 of the Bluetooth GATT specs:
DEC - [52,24,40,0,58,29,59,0,0,0,107,136,23, 0,214, 81, 1,0]
BIT - 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Flag field = 24,52 (bit0 and bit1)
2452 = 00001001 10010100
section 3.55.2.1
the corresponding (1) equates to
- bit2 = Accumulated Torque Present
- bit4 = Wheel Revolution Data Present
- bit7 = Extreme Torque Magnitudes Present
- bit8 = Extreme Angles Present
- bit11 = Accumulated Energy Present
Then from section 3.55.2, you go down the list of bits based on the flags:
Instant Power is bits2 (40) and bit3 (0)
(Dec) 0040 == 00000000 00101000 == 40w
to decipher the rest of the bits, we then have to refer to the flags field since the remaining bits after the flags field and instant power have to depend on what the flags field says that the trainer is supporting.
Based on bit2 of the flags field which says that "Accumulated Torque Present" (
Present if bit 2 of Flags field set to 1) Hence the next 2 bits represents Accumulated Torque
Dec (2958)
The next data would then be based on bit4 of the flags field - Wheel Rev Data Present (Present if bit 4 of Flags field set to 1). This is wheel speed which would translate into speed once you taken into account wheel circumference. For Wheel Rev Data, this is represented by the next 6 bits.
Cumulative Wheel Revolutions - 4 bits
Last Wheel Event Time - 2 bits
like you mentioned, this trainer does not offer cadence service, hence that's why you do not see the flags field (bit5) to be 1. Hence you cannot infer cadence from this data set.
For Wheel speed, you would then decode the data from the 6 bits based on Cum Wheel Rev and Last Wheel Event Time. I can't offer you code on how to decode the 6 bits as you're using flutter and I've no experience in flutter language. (I do Swift) but can likely take a look at this code from GoldenCheetah and convert accordingly.
BT40Device::getWheelRpm(QDataStream& ds)
{
quint32 wheelrevs;
quint16 wheeltime;
ds >> wheelrevs;
ds >> wheeltime;
double rpm = 0.0;
if(!prevWheelStaleness) {
quint16 time = wheeltime - prevWheelTime;
quint32 revs = wheelrevs - prevWheelRevs;
// Power sensor uses 1/2048 second time base and CSC sensor 1/1024
if (time) rpm = (has_power ? 2048 : 1024)*60*revs / double(time);
}
else prevWheelStaleness = false;
prevWheelRevs = wheelrevs;
prevWheelTime = wheeltime;
dynamic_cast<BT40Controller*>(parent)->setWheelRpm(rpm);
}

Writing to a NetCDF3 file using module netcdf4 in python

I'm having a issue writing to a netcdf3 file using the netcdf4 functions. I tried using the create variable function but it gives me this error: NetCDF: Attempting netcdf-4 operation on netcdf-3 file
nc = Dataset(root.fileName,'a',format="NETCDF4")
Hycom_U = nc.createVariable('/variables/Hycom_U','float',('time','lat','lon',))
Hycom_V = nc.createVariable('/variables/Hycom_V','f4',('time','lat','lon',))
nc=
root group (NETCDF3_CLASSIC data model, file format NETCDF3):
netcdf_library_version: 4.1.3
format_version: HFRNet_1.0.0
product_version: HFRNet_1.1.05
Conventions: CF-1.0
title: Near-Real Time Surface Ocean Velocity, Hawaii,
2 km Resolution
institution: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
source: Surface Ocean HF-Radar
history: 22-Feb-2017 00:55:46: NetCDF file created
22-Feb-2017 00:55:46: Filtered U and V by GDOP < 1.25 ;
FMRC Best Dataset
references: Terrill, E. et al., 2006. Data Management and Real-time
Distribution in the HF-Radar National Network. Proceedings
of the MTS/IEEE Oceans 2006 Conference, Boston MA,
September 2006.
creator_name: Mark Otero
creator_email: motero#ucsd.edu
creator_url: http://cordc.ucsd.edu/projects/mapping/
summary: Surface ocean velocities estimated from HF-Radar are
representative of the upper 0.3 - 2.5 meters of the
ocean. The main objective of near-real time
processing is to produce the best product from
available data at the time of processing. Radial
velocity measurements are obtained from individual
radar sites through the U.S. HF-Radar Network.
Hourly radial data are processed by unweighted
least-squares on a 2 km resolution grid of Hawaii
to produce near real-time surface current maps.
geospatial_lat_min: 20.487279892
geospatial_lat_max: 21.5720806122
geospatial_lon_min: -158.903594971
geospatial_lon_max: -157.490005493
grid_resolution: 2km
grid_projection: equidistant cylindrical
regional_description: Unites States, Hawaiian Islands
cdm_data_type: GRID
featureType: GRID
location: Proto fmrc:HFRADAR,_US_Hawaii,_2km_Resolution,_Hourly_RTV
History: Translated to CF-1.0 Conventions by Netcdf-Java CDM (NetcdfCFWriter)
Original Dataset = fmrc:HFRADAR,_US_Hawaii,_2km_Resolution,_Hourly_RTV; Translation Date = Thu Feb 23 13:35:32 GMT 2017
dimensions(sizes): time(25), lat(61), lon(77)
variables(dimensions): float32 u(time,lat,lon), float64 time_run(time), float64 time(time), float32 lat(lat), float32 lon(lon), float32 v(time,lat,lon)
groups:
What are the netcdf 3 operations I can use to add data into the file? I found out that I could manually add data by simply doing this nc.variables["Hycom_U"]=U2which directly adds the data, but nothing else. Is there a better way to do this?
I believe the issue is that you're claiming the file to be netCDF4 format:
nc = Dataset(root.fileName,'a',format="NETCDF4")`
but you really want to indicate that it's netCDF3:
nc = Dataset(root.fileName,'a',format="NETCDF3_CLASSIC")
Additional documentation can be found here.
I figured it out! I simply couldn't use a path as a varname.
Hycom_U = nc.createVariable('Hycom_U','float',('time','lat','lon',))
It properly created a variable for me.

RaspBerry pi B rev2 - Issue while sampling a LM335 (temp. sensor) thru a MCP3208 ADC via SPI in Python 3

I tried to interface a RaspBerry pi with a LM335 temperature sensor this week-end. I'm using a MCP 3208 micro controller (channel 0) to interface the sensor. My goal is to collect samples data in SPI mode with python 3 scripts (classes).
I've checked the wiring and everything seems OK for me, I'but I'am a beginner, not really aware of Electronic concepts.
On the software side , I've installed quick2wire that claims to be python 3 compatible. In fact I want to lead the micro-controller with Python 3 API's (not thru shell calls)
Components
Raspberry pi REV2 model B with Rasbian-wheezy / Quick2wire installed. /dev/spix.y devices are listed.
MCP3208 ADC : 12 bits ADC / SPI. I'm using CS0 from the GPIO. The sensor is connected to channel 0 (B). see datasheet.
LM335 : temperature sensor. Outputs 10mV / °K. Min 5muA / Max 5 mA. It's connected to the MCP3208 channel #0 (A). see datasheet
220 ohms resistor (C). set up regarding LM335 outputs and desired temperature range coverage with my own calculations : May be a problem ...
Schematics extract
The LM335 (zener diode like) is connected as :
Wiring
Components are wired as shown bellow. Note that the yellow link is connected behind the cobbler kit on the CS0 SPI channel.
Quick2wire
I use the bellow script to query the CS0/Channel 0 GPIO interface. Unfortunately, I've not found usefull informations on the quick2wire-python-api API's. I've just copy/paste an example found as it was written in the same goal. I'm not sure if it really works :
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from quick2wire.spi import *
import sys, time
try:
channel = int(sys.argv[1])
except:
channel = 0
MCP3208 = SPIDevice(channel, 0)
while True:
try:
response = MCP3208.transaction(writing_bytes(0x41, 0x13), reading(1))
print ("output = %i" % ord(response[0]))
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
break
The script outputs :
output = 0
output = 0
output = 0
output = 0
output = 0
....
The result is the same with the channel 1 ( with argv = 1)
As the MCP3208 Din (probe output) receives voltage (see bellow) quick2wire should read at 18°C (rawghly my home inside temperature today)
3,3 V / 2^12 = 805 muA as I understand as "digital step"
18°C + 273°C = 291 => 2,91 V on the micro controller Din pin
and then return 2 910 / 0.805 = 3 615
Am I wrong ?
Controls
I've no oscilloscope, the only measures I can read are :
Voltage is 2.529 V at B checkpoint and 0,5 V (+/-5%) on the other MCP3208 channels
Note : the adjust pin is not used on the LM335 so results way not be accurate but voltage is here !
Seems to be a problem on the quick2wire side I think. But which ?
Code
The quick2wire.spi.SPIDevice class lakes of détails on the transfers parameter in terms of structure, content and output response format.
def transaction(self, *transfers):
"""
Perform an SPI I/O transaction.
Arguments:
*transfers -- SPI transfer requests created by one of the reading,
writing, writing_bytes, duplex or duplex_bytes
functions.
Returns: a list of byte sequences, one for each read or duplex
operation performed.
"""
transfer_count = len(transfers)
ioctl_arg = (spi_ioc_transfer*transfer_count)()
# populate array from transfers
for i, transfer in enumerate(transfers):
ioctl_arg[i] = transfers[i].to_spi_ioc_transfer()
ioctl(self.fd, SPI_IOC_MESSAGE(transfer_count), addressof(ioctl_arg))
return [transfer.to_read_bytes() for t in transfers if t.has_read_buf]
Another question :
how to set SPI configuration values like mode, clock speed, bits per word, LSB ... and so on.
Thanks in advance for your help.
I know you probably intend to learn how to use the ADC, an so this isn't really an answer to your question (I will use your very rich post for sure - thanks), but I'm aware of temperature sensors that already pack data in GPIO serial line, that are best suited for the raspberry.
You really have to read this awesome tutorial, if you haven't already.

Export a matrix to Excel

I made a matrix and I want to export it to Excel. The matrix looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
2 0.4069264
3 0.5142857 0.2948718
4 0.3939394 0.4098639 0.3772894
5 0.3476190 0.3717949 0.3194444 0.5824176
6 0.2809524 0.3974359 0.2222222 0.3388278 0.3974359
7 0.2809524 0.5987654 0.3933333 0.4188713 0.4711538 0.3429487
8 0.4675325 0.4855072 0.4523810 0.4917184 0.3409091 0.4318182 0.4128788
9 0.3896104 0.5189594 0.4404762 0.2667549 0.5471429 0.3604762 0.3081502
10 0.4242424 0.4068878 0.3484432 0.2708333 0.4766484 0.3740842 0.4528219
11 0.3476190 0.3942308 0.2881944 0.3228022 0.4711538 0.2147436 0.3653846
12 0.6060606 0.3949830 0.2971612 0.3541667 0.5022894 0.3484432 0.4466490
13 0.4675325 0.5972222 0.6060606 0.3670635 0.4393939 0.3939394 0.3695652
14 0.4978355 0.4951499 0.4480952 0.4713404 0.3814286 0.3147619 0.4629121
15 0.4632035 0.4033883 0.4508929 0.3081502 0.4728571 0.3528571 0.4828571
16 0.3766234 0.5173993 0.4771825 0.4734432 0.5114286 0.3514286 0.4214286
17 0.3939394 0.5289116 0.3260073 0.3333333 0.5663919 0.2330586 0.3015873
18 0.3939394 0.3708791 0.2837302 0.4102564 0.3392857 0.2559524 0.4123810
19 0.3160173 0.5727041 0.4885531 0.3056973 0.4725275 0.3827839 0.3346561
20 0.3333333 0.5793651 0.4257143 0.4876543 0.4390476 0.2390476 0.3131868
21 0.5281385 0.3762755 0.4052198 0.2997449 0.4180403 0.2898352 0.4951499
22 0.3593074 0.3784014 0.4075092 0.2423469 0.4908425 0.3113553 0.3430335
23 0.5281385 0.5875850 0.4404762 0.4634354 0.6071429 0.3763736 0.3747795
24 0.3549784 0.6252381 0.5957341 0.4328571 0.4429563 0.4429563 0.3422619
25 0.4242424 0.4931973 0.5054945 0.2142857 0.4670330 0.4285714 0.4312169
26 0.3852814 0.5671769 0.4954212 0.4073129 0.3736264 0.4890110 0.4523810
27 0.5238095 0.3269558 0.5187729 0.4051871 0.5412088 0.5155678 0.5859788
28 0.3160173 0.1904762 0.3205128 0.3384354 0.3429487 0.3173077 0.5123457
29 0.2380952 0.4468537 0.5196886 0.4536565 0.4491758 0.4491758 0.4634039
30 0.4545455 0.4295635 0.4080087 0.4791667 0.3474026 0.3019481 0.4627329
31 0.2857143 0.3988095 0.3397436 0.3443878 0.4294872 0.2756410 0.3456790
32 0.3636364 0.3027211 0.3772894 0.3452381 0.4413919 0.3388278 0.3818342
33 0.3333333 0.4482402 0.4080087 0.4275362 0.2888199 0.4047619 0.4301242
34 0.5411255 0.4825680 0.4043040 0.4417517 0.4748168 0.3850733 0.3708113
35 0.3160173 0.5476190 0.4230769 0.3979592 0.3653846 0.3397436 0.2283951
36 0.4603175 0.4653209 0.4778912 0.5170807 0.3928571 0.4508282 0.4254658
37 0.3939394 0.1955782 0.2490842 0.4047619 0.2490842 0.3516484 0.4559083
38 0.3463203 0.4660494 0.4300000 0.4157848 0.3833333 0.2233333 0.2788462
39 0.5844156 0.4668367 0.3809524 0.3843537 0.4803114 0.3008242 0.5026455
40 0.5454545 0.4902211 0.3740842 0.2946429 0.5279304 0.2971612 0.3293651
41 0.5800866 0.3758503 0.5073260 0.5136054 0.3598901 0.5393773 0.4823633
42 0.4458874 0.3937390 0.3785714 0.4686949 0.3768315 0.3127289 0.4954212
43 0.6536797 0.5740741 0.5533333 0.4453263 0.4866667 0.5400000 0.4358974
44 0.5887446 0.5548469 0.4308608 0.3949830 0.5462454 0.3411172 0.5136684
45 0.4069264 0.4357993 0.4308608 0.3830782 0.4308608 0.3795788 0.4025573
46 0.5974026 0.3826531 0.3672161 0.3954082 0.4441392 0.3159341 0.5141093
47 0.2554113 0.4196429 0.4262821 0.4961735 0.2788462 0.3301282 0.3055556
I tried the command:
WriteXLS("my matrix after i converted it to data.frame", "test.xls")
but I got this error:
The Perl script 'WriteXLS.pl' failed to run successfully.
I googled it but I couldn't find a solution.
Thanks in advance.
Any reason why you can't just use write.csv?
write.csv(mymatrix, "test.csv")
Import it in Excel and you're set!
PS: I assume you're not putting quotes around your variable name in the WriteXLS call, right?
One other option on Windows (which seems a reasonable assumption given that you are using Excel):
You can write a matrix (or data frame) to the clipboard using a command like:
write.table(mymat, 'clipboard', sep='\t')
Then just go into Excel, click in the cell that you want to be the top left cell, then do a paste and your matrix is there (the sep='\t' is important for Excel to interpret it correctly).
This is similar to other answers, but you don't need an intermediate file on disk.
You could also check xlsx if you do not mind the Excel 2007 format, as xlsx does not depend on Perl (though depends on rJava).
After loading the packge via library(xlsx) just try the following:
write.xlsx(USArrests, "/usarrests.xlsx")
It's hard to see what is going on here exactly. Might be several things.
I think the easiest way to write a matrix to excell is by using write.table() and importing the data in excell. It takes an extra step but it also keeps your data in a nice format.
If foo is your matrix:
write.table(foo,"foo.txt")
If you get an error maybe trie coercing the object to a matrix:
write.table(as.matrix(foo),"foo.txt")
Does the matrix contain values in the upper triangle as well? Perhaps making a full matrix works:
foo<-foo+t(foo)
write.table(as.matrix(foo),"foo.txt")
But these are all just random shots in the dark since I don't have a matrix to work with.
EDIT: In response to the other answer, you can remove the column and rownames with col.names=FALSE and row.names=FALSE in both write.table() and write.csv() (which are the same function with different default values).
I have met the same problem, after reinstalling strawberry perl : after debugging the WriteXLS function in R, I found out the the perl module Text::CSV_XS was missing from my fresh new install. I installed this module from the DOS command line :
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Text::CSV_XS
After this, WriteXLS was working fine.
upper # matrix name
write.xlsx2(upper,file = "File.xlsx", sheetName="Sheetname",col.names=TRUE, row.names=TRUE, append=TRUE, showNA=TRUE)

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