[petsc-users] PETSc recommended visualization packages

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 5 July 2011 12:53, Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I agree with Blaise's assessment of ParaView. It is good for quick and
> dirty visualization, but its scripting interface is very limited.
>
> MayaVi provides a GUI along with high-level API access to VTK data
> structures through Python. One can update/modify the data values through
> the API without ever writing VTK compatible files. I read my data from
> HDF5 files using PyTables and create VTK data objects using the API. A
> similar mechanism could be used for data stored using SQLite. I think
> some Linux and Mac packaging systems include MayaVi; I usually build
> from source.
>

I recently added support (requires petsc4py, of course) for
-ksp|snes|ts_monitor_python filename.py:function|class. Perhaps you
can find this useful for "live" monitoring of simulations.


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