Resurrecting Impact
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Impact Uplift Notes
I have been working with Damian McGuckin of PacificESI to see if it is feasible to resurrect the Impact finite element analysis package. This is implemented in Java but depends on a very old Java OpenGL library JOGL v1. JOGL was refactored a decade or so ago (into v2) to support new graphics technology such as GPU shaders.
Overview
- A Swing GUI is included for working with the config files - java run gui.ImpactGUI
- A CLI mechanism to run an analysis - java run.Impact SomeModel.in
- Integration is provided for GID
Background
See:
- https://impact.org
- https://jogamp.org/jogl/
- https://jogamp.org/jogl/www/
- https://jogamp.org/gluegen/www/
Components
- run - Run various code
- Java UI - gui
- Java 3D - j3d (See j3d.org) - Java code is included in the project.
- Jama - Java Matrix (code included)
- jp - code included
- uka - code included
JOGL
A build occurred in August 2023 and I have been able to use this for simple OpenGLJava programs.
Java Notes
- https://jausoft.com/blog/2023/02/22/reimagine-java-on-desktop-bare-metal-devices/
- https://opengl.j3d.org/installing.html - This is ancient and out of date...