Development of graphics objects to improve CMS Tracker Visualization

The CMS Tracker has a complex spatial structure consisting of around 17000 modules organized in 13 barrel layers and 14+14 end cap disks.

Graphical objects are used to represent tracker information like:

The main goal is to build some graphics objects to improve the performance of existing tracker data visualization tools (IGUANA). These graphics objects will be used also outside ORCA in a stand-alone program and in a web interface. We suggest in some cases the use of a stand-alone program because using only ORCA has the following problems:

The solution is to make a stand-alone program which reads events created by ORCA and ready to be visualized in real-time. Instead a web interface can be very useful when there is little interactivity for example to display information in the tracker construction data base: prototype.

The objects that will be built are the following: