Advanced ParaView Visualization

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Advanced ParaView Visualization

• Kenneth Moreland, David Thompson, Timothy Shead
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Utkarsh Ayachit
• Kitware Inc.
• John Biddiscombe
• Swiss National Supercomputing Center

Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by
Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin
Company,for the United States Department of
Energys National Nuclear Security
Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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Current Funders and Contributors
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

• Army SBIR
• ERDC Contract
• US NSF SBIR

• Support Contracts
• Electricity de France
• Mirarco
• Oil Industry

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What This Tutorial Is NOT

• An introduction to ParaView.
• No hands on GUI learning (go to Supercomputing).
• A description of building visualization
  pipelines.
• Were already vis experts, right?
• A comprehensive list of ParaView features.
• Read the book.
• A series of use cases.

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What This Tutorial Is

• A selected set of advanced features.
• Some are unique to ParaView, some are not.
• All go beyond the classical visualization
  pipeline model.
• Descriptions of usage coupled with descriptions
  of implementation.
• Learn new things you can do with ParaView.
• Learn new tricks for your own visualization
  applications.
• Keys to customizing ParaView.
• Learn to use ParaView as a deployment platform
  for your own visualization research.
• Informal
• Ask questions, offer suggestions, argue, defend,
  throw tomatoes.

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Agenda
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ParaView Library Stack
Client
pvpython
OverView
UI (Qt components, Python wrapping)
ParaView Server
Research, Prototyping, Serial Apps
Titan (Views, Data Types, Algorithms, Readers,
Writers)
VTK
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ParaView Library Stack
Selection Utkarsh Ayachit
InfoVis Timothy Shead
Scripting Utkarsh Ayachit
Particle Vis John Biddiscombe
Customizing Timothy Shead
InfoVis Timothy Shead
Scripting Utkarsh Ayachit
Time John Biddiscombe
Particle Vis John Biddiscombe
Parallel Vis Kenneth Moreland
Higher Order Elements David Thompson