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 parameters (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

Time

Loading temporal data
Temporary interpolation

Output

Annotations
Screenshots
Video

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

Animation

Properties
Keyframes
Tracks