Archive for the ‘Real-World’ Category

Drilling Down Into Gantt Filter Models - Part I

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

In this article, I will take you on a tour of the filter data models that are provided with ILOG JViews Gantt. Then we will go deeper as I show how to implement a filter model that provides data drill-down…

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Shed shadows into the light!

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Shadowed Graphic ObjectsLet’s shed light into the shadows of how to implement shadows in the light of the ILOG JViews Graphic Framework. Some graphic objects have built-in shadows, for instance IlvShadowRectangle and IlvShadowLabel. Shadows can also be implemented by creating symbols in…

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Fast text with less memory

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Light Text SampleText occurs in every diagramming application, for instance as labels on nodes and links. In JViews, you have the choice between IlvZoomableLabel and IlvText; IlvZoomableLabel is more a text picture that allows fancy gradient paints inside the glyphs while the…

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Sabre Case Study on Visualization for Optimization

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

In February, 2008, we had the pleasure of hosting a presentation by one of our Visualization customers, Hariharan Subrimanian, of Sabre Holdings, the airlines services people.  As you can imagine, airlines can save a lot of money when their operations are “optimized”, everything…

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Better Visualization Yields Better Optimization

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Last month, Dan Jeffrey, one of our Senior Visualization consultants, joined forces with Irv Lustig, one of our Optimization gurus, to present a case for how Visualization displays are essential for making better Optimization (aka “Operations Research”, or just “O.R.”)…

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