Company Information

Since 2007 Arction Ltd. has manufactured high-performance charting components for the visualization of huge data sets and real-time monitoring. The company serves demanding developers from such industries as engineering, oil and gas, science, healthcare, finance and trading. The clients of Arction include international enterprises (Intel, Toyota, Samsung, Halliburton, Lloyds Banking Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Audi and other), as well as governmental organizations.

The core product of the company is a GPU-accelerated charting library LightningChart®. It provides fully customizable data visualization tools for .Net and Web. The main advantages of LightningChart – high performance of the components, professional technical support, and full customizability of charts.

 

LightningChart®.NET

Product Information

 

LightningChart®.NET is a Visual Studio add-on, and the fastest 2D & 3D data visualization SDK for Windows Forms and WPF. The charting library is used in applications for the most demanding industries: science and research, engineering, economics and finance, trading, medicine, energy, space and defence. LightningChart is entirely GPU accelerated and performance optimized for presenting the massive amount of data (up to Billions of data points in real-time).

Utilizing CPU and memory resources efficiently, LightningChart is developed and optimized for the professional high-speed software dealing with the real-time data acquisition and representation. This provides an unmatched performance to final applications.

LightningChart provides the following features: XY charts, Trader charts, 3D charts, Polar view, Smith view, Maps, Signal Tools and Volume Rendering. Thanks to a flexible pricing structure of LightningChart, developers can choose the most beneficial product option among the available packages which include different combinations of features.

 

PROPERTIES OF FEATURES

XY 
– Series types: sampled data (discrete signal), point-line, freeform point-line, areas, high-low, polygon, stock (candle-stick), bar, band, constant line, intensity grid, intensity mesh, line collections
– Real-time monitoring scrolling modes: scrolling, sweeping, stepping, oscilloscope style level triggered
– Heatmaps with contours, wireframe, contour labels
– Stencil for rendering intensity series inside polygon, map region
– Persistent rendering layers, Multiple legends, and Axis scale breaking
– Scale breaks to clip off unnecessary info, such as non-trading days in weekends

 

 

Trader charts
– Data fetching from web server, or supplying it by code, or reading it from CSV file
– Stocks search by name or symbol
– Several color themes
– Chart types selection: mountain, line, candle-sticks, bars
– Technical indicators, such as SMA, EMA, WMA, Bollinger band, RSI, MACD
– Drawing tools, such as Trend line, Linear regression channel, Fibonacci retracement, Fibonacci arcs, Fibonacci fan, Freehand annotation
– Chart segments management and resizing

 

 

3D
– Series types: surface mesh, surface grid, waterfall, polygon, rectangle planes, mesh models, point-line, bar and pie charts.
– 3D scene settings with Multiple light sources
– Import 3D models in .obj
– Gigantic surface sizes of over 4096×4096, depending on available memory

 

 

Volume Rendering
– Separate Linear Transfer function for every channel
– Volume Thresholding in accordance with voxels brightness for every channel
– Dynamic modification of Voxel range
– Manual or Automatic Adoptive sampling rate of volume data
– Three interchangeable options for Volume Rendering Ray function

 

 

Maps
– On-line tile maps: supports street maps and satellite imagery
– Dozens of maps: World, continents, specific areas
– Multi-layer: land, lakes, rivers, roads, cities etc.
– Map import from ESRI shape file data

 

 

Polar
– Unlimited, Multiple amplitude and angle axes
– Palette-colored point-line series
– Sectors
– Markers

 

 

Smith
– Series types: point-line
– Absolute and normalized scales

 

 

SignalTools: SignalReader, SignalGenerator, AudioInput, AudioOutput, SpectrumCalculator

 

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
– Full mouse-interaction, touch screen support, custom mouse interactivity extensions
– Cursors and Annotations, data colorizing with color palette, and full customizability of components
– Data breaking by NaN or other specified breaking value, in selected series types
– Numeric, Time, DateTime, Logarithmic, Geographic Coordinate System (GCS) and Custom axis scales
– Professional 5-star technical support & Hundreds of chart examples

RENDERING TECHNOLOGY
– DirectX 11 & DirectX 9 support
– Automatic software rendering with WARP in systems without graphics hardware and for virtual machines
– Ability to disable rendering to save GPU resources if chart is not in use or temporary not needed, or hidden
– Selectable fonts quality
– HiDPI scaling support
– Can be run in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes

 

COMPATIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

– DirectX 9.0c (shader model 3) level graphics adapter or newer, or DirectX11 compatible operating system for rendering without graphics hardware. DirectX11 compatible graphics hardware recommended.
– Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10, as 32 bit or 64 bit, and Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher
– Visual Studio 2010-2017 for development, not required for deployment
– .NET framework v. 4.0 or newer installed

 


LightningChart® JS

Lightning-Fast charts for the most demanding JavaScript developers

THE HIGHEST PERFORMANCE ON THE MARKET

 

LightningChart® JS comes with an outstanding execution performance – monitor dozens of data feeds simultaneously using high data rates.

GPU acceleration and WebGL rendering ensure that your device’s graphics processor is utilized efficiently, which results in high refresh rates and smooth animations.

Try out LightningChart® JS performance demo and measure your: Average FPS, Loadup time and data generation delay.

 

TOP USER EXPERIENCE

 

LightningChart® JS provides intuitive touch screen interactivity with zooming, panning and moving data cursors. Dashboard control makes it easy and convenient to manage dozens of charts, legend boxes, buttons, check boxes and other UI elements.

The Interactive Examples demo contains dozens of examples and code modification on-the-fly.

 

 CHARTS

 

XY charts

  • Plot types: Line and point plots, area plots, area range, stock, rectangle, ellipse, box-whisker and line segment plots.
  • Linear axes can be placed left/right/top/bottom and possibility to have several X and Y axes per chart
  • Scaling modes include fitting, Expansion, Progressive/ Regressive and Manual
  • Markers and data cursors have customizable shape and styles

 

 

3D charts

  • Series types: Line series, Point series, PointLine series, PointCloud series.
  • Customize the shape of the Bounding Box of the 3D Chart.
  • Linear Axes for X, Y and Z planes around Bounding Box of the 3D Chart.
  • Use Numeric and DateTime format with Axis ticks.
  • Camera can be controlled to rotate around and zoom in / out of the Chart area.

 

 

 

Radar / Spider charts

 

  • Categorical automatically generated axes
  • Round and lines grid
  • Line point and filled area plots
  • Scaling modes include fitting, expansion and manual
  • Data cursors have customizable shape and styles

 

 

 Pie / Donut charts

  • Slices can be styled using different fill and border-styles.
  • Fully customizable sorting and formatting of slices.
  • Slice value transitions as well as disposing/restoring are animated.
  • Labels can be set on side with connector-lines or inside Slices
  • Slices can be “exploded” programmatically or by mouse/touch.

 

 

Funnel Charts

  • Slices can be styled using different fill and stroke styles.
  • Slices can have empty gaps in between.
  • Fully customizable sorting and formatting of slices.
  • Labels can be set on side with connector lines or inside slices.
  • Two different ways to show the slices based on their values: Variable width and Variable height.

 

 

Gauge Charts

  • Gauge can be styled using different fill and stroke styles.
  • Set the thickness of the Gauge.
  • Gauge Slice can be styled using different fill styles.
  • Fully customizable formatting and styling of slices.
  • Customize the start and end angles of the gauge.
  • Customize the value interval of the gauge.
  • Gauge value change, interval and angle transitions and gauge dispose/restore are animated.

 

 

 

Pyramid Charts

 

  • Slices can be styled using different fill and stroke styles.
  • Slices can have empty gaps in between
  • Fully customizable sorting and formatting of slices.
  • Labels can be set on side with connector lines or inside slices.

 

 

 FEATURES

 

Dashboard: Makes it easy and convenient to manage dozens of charts, legend boxes, buttons, check boxes and other UI elements. Resource-efficient rendering of all charts in one GPU scene also makes resizing columns and rows very fast.

 

Animations: Exceptionally powerful rendering ensures smooth animations exceeding all industry standards in amount of data per chart. Intuitive touch screen interactivity with zooming, panning, moving data cursors and so on.

 

WebGL rendering: GPU acceleration and WebGL rendering ensure that your device’s graphics processor is utilized efficiently, which results in high refresh rates and an outstanding execution performance.

Software Sources Ltd. is Arction Reseller.