Currently glue-ar supports exporting to two industry-standard 3D file formats:
glue-ar supports both the JSON/ASCII (.gltf) and binary (.glb) forms of glTF. Additionally, via the glTF Transform JavaScript package, it supports two compression methods for glTF:
glue-ar supports all three forms of USD files:
Below are some examples of files generated using glue-ar. Scan the QR codes to see the figures in AR on your phone! We provide three types of interactives for most of our examples:
A rendering of the Per-Tau Shell, using isosurfaces for dust clouds
A static rendering of the Radcliffe Wave, an enormous wavelike structure in the Sun's neighborhood.
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A 3D model of the Moon.
A 3D model of Jupiter.
A 3D model of the Local Bubble's magnetic field together with the Gum Nebula.
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A voxelized rendering of a position-position-velocity data cube for the M83 galaxy. Thanks to Eric Koch for providing this dataset.
A rendering of the Gum Nebula, with points representing the IRAS Vela Shell. The shell is colored by hydrogen density. Thanks to Annie Gao for providing this dataset.
An animated rendering of the Radcliffe Wave, showing the motion of the wave over time.
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The figure that started it all! This figure, created in collaboration with Delightex, was the first AR figure to appear in a major astronomical journal.
A rendering of several different data sets of structures within the Milky Way, including the Radcliffe Wave, Local Bubble, and IRAS Vela Shell.
glue-ar can be used with both major frontends for glue: the Qt desktop application, and the glue-jupyter viewers which can be used in Jupyter notebooks.
In Qt glue, the glue-ar export tool is exposed in the toolbar as sub-tools of the "save" meta-tool, and can be accessed from its dropdown menu.
The glue Jupyter viewers don't yet support subtools, so in these viewers the glue-ar export tool is exposed at the top level of the toolbar.
glue-ar supports exporting from the following viewers:
Once you've got a view that you want to export, you can simply use the AR export tool to turn it into a 3D figure. While we try to make the export process as simple as possible, we also provide some options to allow optimizing the output file for the environment where you want to share it. For a description of these options and our user interface, see our export options guide.