ParaView

Availability

Personal

Copy data to personal machine for analysis.

Windows and OS X

Download latest version from ParaView website

  • older version may work if newer fails on older OS or graphics card

Linux

Install with your package manager (can also download as above)

  • Debian and Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install paraview

  • Fedora: sudo yum install paraview

Clusters

Remote desktop to avoid having to transfer data

  • Open OnDemand (OOD) (nibi, trillium)

  • JupyterHub (JH) (rorqual, fir)

OOD

Login and pick Compute Node -> Desktop (nibi) or Apps -> Trillium Desktop (trillium)

JupyterHub

Login, start job, pick Mate Desktop or XFCE4 Desktop

Tutorial

Working through the ParaView tutorial is one of the quickest and easiest ways to get up-to-speed on ParaView.

  • basic usage (what we will be going over)

  • batch python scripting

  • visualizing large models

$ cp -r /home/tyson/ParaView .

Basis of visualization

  • map raw data to visual data

  • spacial and temporal data

  • topology and types of grids

User interface

  • menu bar

  • tool bars

  • pipeline browser

  • properties panel

  • view

Basic interface

  • creating a source

  • interacting with a 3d view

  • modifying visualization paramaters (filter, display, view)

  • undo and redo (regular vs camera)

Loading data

  • opening file (selecting which variables to load)

  • representation and field coloring

  • scaling

Filters

  • selecting filters (toolbar, menu, and search)

  • applying a filter (contours, slices)

Multiview

  • creating a multiple views

  • linking cameras

  • re-arranging the views

Vector visualization

  • streamlines

  • tubes and glyphs

  • surface LIC

Volume rendering

  • Enabling

  • Transfer function

Plotting

  • histogram plot

  • plot over a line in space

  • plot over a curve

  • plot over time

Selections

  • Query and view based selections

  • Data vs spatial selections

  • Selection labels

  • Extract selection and spreadsheet