A very brief introduction to ParaView

Jan Götz

Erlangen 2007

Department of Computer Science 10

System Simulation

What is ParaView?

Open-source, multi-platform visualization application.

Supports distributed computation models to process large data sets.

Has an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface.

Extensible architecture based on open standards.

An example simple legacy serial file

# vtk DataFile Version 4.0 Results ASCII DATASET STRUCTURED_POINTS DIMENSIONS 4 4 1 ORIGIN 0 0 0 SPACING 1 1 1

.........................

An example simple legacy serial file(continued)

................ POINT_DATA 16 SCALARS density double 1 LOOKUP_TABLE default 1.5 1.6 1.8 1.9................

More information

http://www.paraview.org Wiki: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView For file formats: Book VTK User’s Guide from our

library or http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf

ParaView user’s guide: http://www.paraview.org/files/v1.6/ParaViewUsersGuide.PDF

Try it out :-)