[petsc-users] PETSc recommended visualization packages

[Stephen Wornom]

Jed Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 21:44, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov 
> <mailto:bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>
>     What are the recommended visualization packages for use with PETSc
>     (for example making movies of contour plots and isosurfaces) and
>     what are the recommended data formats to use to save Vecs for
>     visualization?
>
>
> VisIt
Any links to VisIt? Goggle produced nothing.
Thanks,
Stephen

> and ParaView are the primary choices. In my experience, VisIt is a 
> more complete system, but ParaView is easier to install and probably 
> easier to get started with.
>
> The VTK XML or binary formats are the easiest to get started with. See 
> src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex14.c for an example of writing an XML file 
> containing two fields on different grids (2D and 3D, structured, but 
> deformed) in parallel. All file formats are horrible non-extensible 
> crud, usually grown out of a particular application with structured 
> grids of low-order/non-exotic basis functions on unstructured grids. 
> They tend not to retain enough semantic information to reconstruct a 
> state for further computations and also work for visualization without 
> needing additional application-provided information.


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