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\defgroup Graphics3D 3D Graphics
\ingroup Graphics
\brief The 3D graphics related classes
\defgroup TEve Event Display
\ingroup Graphics3D
\brief The Event Display classes

Eve is a ROOT module based on experiment-independent part of the
ALICE event display developed in cooperation between ALICE offline
project and ROOT during the last two years. It has been used in
ALICE for more than a year to perform high-level event
visualization, debugging of simulation and reconstruction code as
well as for raw-data visualization.

Papers describing Eve (older ones still using the old name - Reve):

  - [EVE - Event Visualization Environment of the ROOT framework]
    (http://pos.sissa.it//archive/conferences/070/103/ACAT08_103.pdf)
    presented at ACAT 2008.

  - [Event Visualization Environment of the ALICE experiment]
    (http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=25&confId=13356)
    presented at ROOT Workshop 2007.

  - [Raw-data display and visual reconstruction validation in ALICE]
    (http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=442&sessionId=23&confId=3580)
    presented at CHEP 2007.

Eve is built on top of ROOT's GUI, GL and GED infrastructure and
delivers the following main features:

  - Base-classes for representation of visual objects that can
    be presented in list-tree views, object-editors and rendered
    via OpenGL (TEveElement and sub-classes).

  - Application manager class TEveManager for top-level
    management of elements, GUI components, geometries and events;

  - Classes for presentation of full TGeo geometries
    (TEveGeoNode and TEveGeoTopNode) as well as of
    simplifed geometries via extraction of shape-data
    (TEveGeoShape).

\image html eve_cmsgeo.png "CMS geometry"

  - Classes for presentation of trajectories or tracks
    (TEveTrack, TEveTrackPropagator) and hits or
    clusters (TEvePointSet, TEvePointSetArray).

\image html eve_alice3d.png "A simulated ALICE pp@14TeV event in 3D"

  - Base-classes for presentation of raw-data or digits
    (TEveDigitSet, TEveQuadSet and
    TEveBoxSet). A collection of objects can be assigned
    common signal-to-color mapping (TEveRGBAPelette) and
    surrounding frame (TEveFrameBox).

\image html eve_quadset.png "Hexagonal and rectangular digits"

  - Base-classes for 2D projections with dynamically controllable
    fish-eye magnification of the vertex region
    (TEveProjectionManager and
    TEveProjection). Tracks, points and geometries can be
    projected automatically. R-phi and Rho-z projections are
    currently supported.

\image html eve_aliceproj.png "A r-phi projection with fish-eye transformation of a simulated ALICE pp@14TeV event"

  - TriangleSet class for presentation of generic triangle meshes.

\image html eve_3ds.png "3DS shuttle object"