[petsc-users] PETSc recommended visualization packages

[Ivo Roghair]

https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/

This one. I agree the name is too generic to find it with just visit.
I always use "visit llnl".

2011/7/5 Stephen Wornom <stephen.wornom at inria.fr>:
> 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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