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Fig. 3.13 Curve

Developments are in hand to script the sensors. A sensor will be able to execute
a script (python), and the latter will be able to access the body via an API and to
produce outputs (Fig. 3.13 ).

3.4 The Representation

The display of mechanical phenomena is the most important part. GIDE includes
the main possibilities of 3D software: rotations, displacements, etc. We have,
however, added the capability of following a body in time and tracing the asso-
ciated curves: we can thus at any moment display the information on this body.
The interface currently allows:

• 3D display—of isovalues—in wire frame/hidden face mode,
• Rotation, zoom, dynamic translation with the aid of the mouse,
• The ability to cut through the structure to examine a field in non-visible parts,
• Recording of mpeg formats for films, jpeg for images and svg for exploited
data.