25–29 Aug 2025
Monona Terrace
US/Central timezone

A method for converting high energy physics detector description into a Unity visualization

28 Aug 2025, 18:55
5m
Room MNQR (Monona Terrace)

Room MNQR

Monona Terrace

Speaker

Tianzi Song (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))

Description

Detector visualization plays a vital role throughout the lifecycle of high-energy physics (HEP) experiments, yet existing detector descriptions, such as GDML, lack compatibility with industrial 3D tools. We present an automated conversion framework that transforms four major HEP detector types, including GDML, Geant4, ROOT and DD4hep, into standardized FBX models compatible with a industrial 3D platform called Unity. This solution enables high-energy physics detectors to be directly visualized in the professional 3D ecosystem, which is of great help for detector design verification, event display development, and public participation.

Authors

Tianzi Song (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN)) Zhengyun You (Sun Yat-Sen University (CN))

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