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OpenPHIGS: How an enthusiastic game developer accidentially helped to save LEP data

Ulrich Schwickerath · CERN

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Event displays are an excellent tool to visualise HEP events, for physicist but also for outreach. In the old days,these 3d visualisation tools were a challenge, and thus some experiments decided to use a commercial closed source back-end solution. This talk tells the story of how a little open source project of an enthusiastic game developer helped to resurrect these useful tools for two of the LEP experiments..

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  1. OpenPHIGS: How an enthusiastic game developer accidentially helped to save LEP data 2025-10-23 · 7 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Department
Open Source
Speaker
Ulrich Schwickerath
Year
2025
Language
English
Source
CERN
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