Features
- Handles structured (uniform, non-uniform rectilinear grids as well as curvilinear grids), unstructured, polygonal and image data.
- Supports multiple input/output file formats.
- Maintains interactive frame rates even when working with large data through the use of level-of-detail (LOD) models.
- Intuitive and flexible interface based on the Qt toolkit.
- Large Data and Distributed computing:
- Runs parallel on distributed and shared memory systems using MPI.
- Supports both distributed rendering (where the results are rendered on each node and composited later using the depth buffer), local rendering (where the resulting polygons are collected on one node and rendered locally) and a combination of both (for example, the level-of-detail models can be rendered locally whereas the full model is rendered in a distributed manner).
- Scripting and extensibility:
- ParaView is fully scriptable using the simple but powerful Tcl language.
- Additional modules can be added by either writing an XML description of the interface or by writing special C++ sub-classes of the main ParaView module.
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ParaView at RZG
Availability
ParaView is available on the visualization cluster, as well as on most Linux machines at RZG (issue module avail to get an up-to-date software list).
How to use ParaView
RZG visualization staff strongly recommends to use ParaView on the RZG visualization cluster for interactive remote visualization. For non-interactive use (e.g. script controlled rendering), it is also possible to use other Linux clusters (e.g. where the user's simulation code is running on).
Documentation
Input data
- ParaView supports multiple mesh types and can read a large variety of common data formats. The recommended data format is VTK.
Support
Send email to RZG visualization staff (visualization@rzg.mpg.de) in case of questions which are not covered by this documentation.
