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Table 1 Available layers built into the substrate package

From: A substrate for modular, extensible data-visualization

Layer name

Description

Useful for...

AxisLayer

Contains an RGB axis at the scene origin

...orienting the user in space

GraphLayer

A graph renderer with support for many millions of nodes or edges

...complex networks

ImageLayer

Import 2D images and render them as a plane

...displaying static iamgery

LightingLayer

Three-point lighting scheme, as commonly used in film and 3D graphics

...easy lighting setups

LineSegmentsLayer

A list of line segments to be rendered individually

...paths or wireframes

MeshLayer

Arbitrary 3D meshes, imported in common file formats such as OBJ

...arbitrary 3D solids

ScatterLayer

Point-clouds of many millions of points

...colored scatter plots

VolumeLayer

A visualization of dense 3D voxelwise data

...rendering volumetric data