Design UI for Geometry panel for Geant4 with tree view and object details + Detector geometry #2008

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1. kmichalikk

   added a parent issue on Apr 15, 2025

   • Support Geant4 nested geometry in YAPTIDE 3D View #2007
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3. kmichalikk commented on Apr 18, 2025

   

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   First draft of the tree structure

   Contents of the menus is still in progress

   
4. grzanka commented on Apr 28, 2025

   

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   Think which solids would we like to support. Box+Cylinder+Sphere covers 95% of cases. There should be some "advanced" option to add more complicated solids.

   I think its also crucial to design what happens under right mouse click, as the crucial features like "Duplicate" or "Delete" will be there.
5. grzanka commented on Apr 28, 2025

   

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   It would be nice (I think in general) to have an option to specify "Drawing region" like in PHIG-3D:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RYiDC0gMws

   
6. kmichalikk commented on May 11, 2025

   

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   I tried to sum up what functionalities we need

   The HIERARCHY panel shows the hierarchy of objects placed on the scene.

   • Buttons to add simple shapes: BOX, CYLINDER, SPHERE
     • For now, in the future we may add more shapes, for that we need a different UI because the joined buttons won't scale
   • Objects are presented in a tree structure which represents the hierarchy
   • They can be placed within the structure by drag'n'drop
   • Clicking on the objects shows the MATERIAL panel below HIERARCHY for selected object

   The INFORMATION panel allows to change object name, we leave it as-is

   The MATERIAL panel is shown only when an object is selected

   • For now, it allows to select from predefined Geant4 materials
   • Options: Custom density, Opacity and Color are preserved
   • Further plans:
     • Plus sign to the right of select
     • The new material appears in select for every object on the scene
     • Either select option name is editable or there exists a text field below that changes option name
     • Translates G4Material constructor by including inputs for: Z, A, density, state, temperature, pressure
     • The new material is saved inside the project file
     • Further further plan includes mixtures with n_components which translate AddMaterial()

   The DETECTOR panel is shown only when an object is selected

   • By default, it shows a checkbox 'Set as Sensitive Detector'
   • When on, object is associated with a SensitiveDetector and collects hits data to plot in simulation results
   • Additional configuration when on: threshold
   • Disabling and reenabling should preserve data, detector can be set as 'inactive' internally
7. kmichalikk commented on May 11, 2025

   

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8. kmichalikk commented on May 11, 2025

   

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   We could add icon and coloring support for TreeView and use them to provide more information at a glance

   For instance, show geometry primitives and indicate which object functions as a detector (from what I understand, Geant4 "detector" is a regular object with some special configuration)

   I am thinking about taking this further and represent some properties as pseudo objects in tree as in Blender

   

   but I also think that would be too complicated to implement and maybe not worth the effort
9. grzanka commented on May 12, 2025

   

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   The detector object may completely unrelated to any of the items in the tree inside HIERARCHY panel.
   Each of the shapes in HIERARCHY has attach material.

   Detector object doesn't have any material attached.

   Check this:
   https://geant4.web.cern.ch/documentation/dev/bfad_html/ForApplicationDevelopers/Detector/commandScore.html

   Take a look on example here:
   https://github.com/ostatni5/geant4-wasm-performance/blob/main/example/B1/exampleB1.in

   In principle you can have a hierarchy of Spheres with some materials attached and then on top of that
   scoring dose in box centered around (0,0,0) with side of 10cm, divided into 10 slices along Z, as follows:

   /score/create/boxMesh boxMesh
   /score/mesh/boxSize 50. 50. 50. mm
   /score/mesh/nBin 1 1 10
   /score/quantity/energyDeposit eDep
   

   Such mesh can be translated/rotated.

   See also https://github.com/Geant4/geant4/blob/20a218bbe1d8b4a78f819e396f8be615e6a38358/source/digits_hits/utils/src/G4ScoringMessenger.cc#L76 for more options.
10. kmichalikk commented on May 13, 2025

    

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    Okay, then the DETECTOR panel will be left as-is, but I will add Rotation inputs

    
11. kmichalikk commented on Oct 2, 2025

    

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    The bulk of the task is done in #2165. Further development, if need be, will be done in new issues/PRs.
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    closed this as completedon Oct 2, 2025