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You can look at it/play around with it via jupyter notebook or via collab online:
https://colab.research.google.com/github/hrtlacek/rtv/blob/master/notebook/compareEnvs.ipynb

### What do these Vague Categories Mean?
These are categories that are meant to characterize the purpose a specific tool is used best for. It is of course a bit weird to say environmentx has a science score of 0.6. But there is some thought behind this:
#### Science
An environments get a high score for tis category if the following is true:
- It is often or sometimes used in a science context
- It is advertised as being a good tool for research
- it is open source
- It has some text programming capabilities
- Its files are not stored as binary (but as JSON for example) and general openness
- It's highly extensible

### Creativity
An environments get a high score for tis category if the following is true:
- It is often or sometimes used in an art context
- It is advertised as being a good tool for design
- It's beginner and artist friendly and does not need a lot of know-how of inner workings
- It's design-centered
- Ease of use is an obvious priority of the environment (technical things are not in the way)
- Reinventing the wheel is nearly not necessary
- It supports some kind of graphical programming environment(not only text programming)

### Show Production
An environments get a high score for tis category if the following is true:
- It is often or sometimes used in a professional Live-Show/Set-design context
- It is advertised as being a good tool for professional large-scale live shows
- It offers great out-of-the-box integration of current technology(Kinect, Leap motion, realSense, Dante, posiStage)
- Extremely stable
- out-of-the-box 2D/3D Mapping capabilities
- Good interfaces to other professional software that is widely used (Substance Designer, Photoshop, various 3d Modelling Tools etc)
- DMX/Artnet support out-of-the-box
- It has some kind of Linear/Keyframing (time line) functionality

### Experimental
An environments get a high score for tis category if the following is true:
- It is often or sometimes used in an experimental/art context
- It is advertised as being a good tool for art based research
- It's open source
- It supports current technologies such as HIDs and VR
- It's highly extensible
- It's not very specialized or very specialized on a not so common technique (such as live coding)


![3D plot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hrtlacek/rtv/dev/img/compare3d.png)

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