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

The data files are supposed to come with recent ParaView versions. They can also be downloaded from the old ParaView tutorial wiki page

wget -d https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/images/5/58/ParaViewTutorialData.zip
unzip ParaViewTutorialData.zip

or, on graham, copied directly from my account to yours

$ cp -r /home/tyson/ParaViewTutorialData .

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