[Rivet] Fwd: MCViz 0.2 released

[Andy Buckley]

For anyone who is interested, this is quite a neat little project which
Peter showed me during YETI. He's completely right about it currently
being configurable to the point of unusability, but I like their style
:) And maybe it'll be useful for showing event graphs in talks.

Andy



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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	MCViz 0.2 released
Date: 	Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:07:04 +0100
From: 	Peter Waller <peter.waller at cern.ch>
CC: 	Johannes Ebke <ebke at cern.ch>



Hi All,

TL;DR: http://mcviz.net/ttbar.svg / http://mcviz.net/ttbar.png

Johannes and I finally got around to releasing our mess-around project,
MCViz, complete with some actual documentation and examples.

It can be used to make "Feynman-like" diagrams of Monte-Carlo events. It
copes with events with 1000's of particles. It is also stupidly
extensible almost to the point of unusability (we went a bit far, imo)
although we hope at this point that the defaults and the basic examples
are "good enough" to get started with.

http://mcviz.net <http://mcviz.net/>
https://github.com/mcviz/repo/wiki (screenshots at the bottom).

Here is a tt->WW event, which you can zoom into:
(Sorry, some of the text labels are broken due to a severe rendering bug
in webkit=Safari/Chrome/others. In these browsers you can take a look
anyway, but in Firefox/Inkscape the rendering is correct.)
http://mcviz.net/ttbar.svg

If you feel adventurous enough to give it a shot on your favourite
generator or physics event, let us know if you create anything cool or
run into problems.

Cheers!

- Peter