Overview
My bachelor's thesis, written together with Andreas Ambühl in 2021.
Flowchart of the glue plugin. From astro cloud data to mesh to AR.
Glue Plugin
Glue is an open-source Python tool for linked data visualization, developed by the Seamless Astronomy Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and extendable with plugins. Exploring 3D data on a 2D screen hides structure, and AR has become cheap and common enough to be a real alternative.
We wrote a Glue plugin that adds an AR view of the data. All you need is the plugin, a phone with the CoSpaces app and a Merge Cube, which serves as a handheld 3D marker.
The plugin exports the 3D data as meshes and uploads them to CoSpaces through its API. It then creates a room with the data and shows a QR code to open it on the phone.
Our plugin for Glue, enabling an AR-view of the data using a phone and a Merge Cube
Links
Code Repository: Github Repo
Poster: Download Poster
Publications
Ambühl, A., Fluri, L., Zucker, C., Goodman, A., & Cöltekin, A. (2022). Effectiveness and perceived usefulness of a handheld AR cube for examining 3D spatial structures. In SpaceCHI Workshop at CHI 2022.