About VP1
VP1, or Virtual Point 1, is an Event Display for the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The aim is to provide a tool useful for the understanding of physics events and help with debugging of software and analysis, as well as provide a modern 3D enabled display for point 1. VP1 runs out of the ATLAS offline software framework, Athena, and thus provides direct access to the same data and algorithms that are used in e.g. reconstruction of physics events. This approach is not only very flexible, but abolishes the need for the development and maintenance of data formats and algorithms shadowing the actual ones used elsewhere in ATLAS. VP1 is based on the C++ GUI toolkit Qt4 and relies on Inventor/OpenGL for 3D graphics. It utilises a flexible plugin architecture for the actual interaction with ATLAS data and algorithms, allowing easy parallel development by multiple contributers. An overview of VP1 is also given in this ATLAS e-news article.The current VP1 Core Team:
- Riccardo-Maria BIANCHI - University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Joseph BOUDREAU - University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Edward MOYSE - University of Massachusetts (US)
- Thomas KITTELMANN - European Spallation Source - (original VP1 main developer and former maintainer)
- Vakhtang TSULAIA - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US) - (former VP1 developer and maintainer)