actsvg

An SVG based C++20 plotting library for ACTS detectors, surfaces and relations.

This library has itself no dependency, simply for unittesting it relies on googletest. In case actsvg is built with python bindings, also pybind11 is used as a dependency.

Core module

This module has the core definition and plotting functionality for primitives.

Meta module

This module acts as a translation layer between the caller libraries (etc. ACTS, detray) and core library. It allows to create proto objects for detectors that can then be used for plotting using the core module. This module does also contain a dedicated display area that prepares some standard sheets, a view examples can be placed below.

Sample SVGs that can be produced

A view stand-alone files that are produced by the googletest based unit testing.

An example for an endcap sheet:

An example for a barrel sheet (module info display):

Getting started

To build actsvg using CMake execute the following

 cmake -GNinja -S <actsvg_src> -B <actsvg_build> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<actsvg_installed>
    		  -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=20
cmake --build $bdir -j $cthreads --target install

CMake Build options are:

CMake build flag	Description	Default
ACTSVG_BUILD_META	Build the meta module of the project	ON
ACTSVG_BUILD_WEB	Build the web module of the project	ON
ACTSVG_BUILD_TESTING	Building the testing suite	OFF
ACTSVG_BUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS	Build python bindings for the project	OFF