ParaView

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ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include developing an open-source, multi-platform visualization application that support distributed computational models to process large data sets. It has an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface. Furthermore, ParaView is built on an extensible architecture based on open standards. ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been succesfully tested on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, IBM Blue Gene, Cray XT3 and various Unix workstations and clusters. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using the Qt cross-platform application framework.

The goal of this Wiki is to provide up-to-date documentation maintained by the developer and user communities. As such, we welcome volunteers that would like to contribute. If you are interested in contributing, please contact us on the ParaView mailing list http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview.

You can find more information about ParaView on the ParaView web site: http://paraview.org. For more help, check out http://paraview.org/New/help.html.


Documentation

Compile/Install

Instructions for downloading source as well as pre-compiled binaries for common platforms.
Compiling and installing ParaView from source.

Server Setup

Configuring your cluster to act as a ParaView server.
Using the ParaView client to start the servers.
Customizing server startup and connection processes using XML-based configuration scripts.

Python Scripting

Scripting ParaView using python
Generating/Processing data using python.

Animation

Using Animation View to setup animations


Plugins

Using and writing new plugins to extend ParaView's functionality.
Including extensions into ParaView at compile time.

Other Features

Synchronizing filters, clip planes, camera etc.
Loading restarted data for different file formats.
Packaging pipelines into a single composite.
Selecting and focusing on subset of a dataset.
Exporting scenes as VRML, X3D etc.

Design & Implementation

ParaView GUI Testing framework
Providing details about blocks, hierarchies, assemblies etc. to the client
Details for handling multiple views in client-server framework
Dealing with composite datasets in ParaView
Understanding ParaView's views and representations

Books and Tutorials

The official ParaView guide available from Kitware.
Material and notes from the Supercomputing '08 tutorial by Sandia and Kitware
Material and notes from the Supercomputing '08 tutorial by Sandia
This Wiki is full of useful information and tutorials about ParaView

Miscellaneous



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