[petsc-users] petsc4py, plotting DA and writing to file

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 27 September 2010 13:54, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 18:47, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> viewer = PETSc.Viewer.DRAW(globalvec.comm)
>> globalvec.view(viewer) # or viewer(globalvec)
>
> What do you think about having a top-level matplotlib viewer?

Yes, we could have it, and a VisIt plugin, and a ParaView one, and
what about Mayavi, and <put here your preferred viewer>... This could
go to a separate petsc4py.plotting module (I prefer to not contaminate
the petsc4py.PETSc namespace with stuff that is not pure-PETSc)

> Ideally
> it would have an option to drop you into an interactive python session
> after the initial view.
>

Could you elaborate?

> I know this brings up the multiple dispatch problem, since the viewer
> would naturally be distributed with petsc4p, but then you don't get to
> modify the case statement in VecView_XX.
>

Sorry, now I'm confused. Are you suggesting this for petsc4py, or core PETSc?

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