Color coded / 3D data on picture of a hand

[Philippe_Riviere]

Hi,

I am using sensors to measure the force applied on/by the surgeon's fingers during surgery, and I would like to display nicely the data. I encounter some difficulties while trying to achieve this.

A first solution would be to have a 2D picture of a hand in the front panel with colour-coded data at the circular locations of the sensors. The hand picture could be loaded from a bmp or jpeg file, or, as I think it would be easier to specify the regions to paint according to the data, created within LabView with a simpler shape.

An even nicer solution would be a perspective view of the hand with the data displayed in the z-plane.

Although LabView 7.1 seems powerful in terms of 3D plot and picture handling functions, I could not find any examples of such an application.

Has anyone already tried this, or have any idea of how to do it? Any help would be much appreciated, in english or french...

Thank you,

Philippe Riviere

[Conseils]

For your first solution you might try the custom control at http://members.lycos.co.uk/sgctek check out the colour spot link.

You might find the example spot indicator simpler to use than the Labview colour ramp control. It's round and transparent at the edges, so gives a good impression. You can also shrink it to a small square.

There is also a simulated 3D colour control that might inspire / be useful.

[Philippe_Riviere]

  Thank you very much for your quick answer!

   This colour spot is exactly what is was looking for in order to achieve a colour coded representation of the data. It seems quite straightforward to use, and will certainly be really helpful.

    Concerning the 3D aspect, which would be good to implement at a further stage, the VI that is provided may not be directly applicable to get the result I want (see attached picture of what has been done previously with Matlab), but is a good basis to investigate a way to do it.

   Thank you again for your help, do not hesitate to contact me again if you have another idea about the 3D issue...

    All the best,

      Philippe