[petsc-users] Saving graphical matrix structure to a file

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Habbal, Feras (353G-Affiliate) <
Feras.A.Habbal at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> I tried using the commands from the previous post:
> xwd | xpr -device ps > foo.ps
>

That worked fine for me when I made movies this way. I'm not sure what else
to recommend.

   Matt


> But the output was bizarre: reversed and had some artifacts.
>
> I can certainly use the mac screen capture tools, but I am needing an
> automated capability to capture the structure of several
> matrices (~1000) during a run.
>
> Feras
>
> From: Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: PETSc users list <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:14:39 -0700
> To: PETSc users list <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Saving graphical matrix structure to a file
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Habbal, Feras (353G-Affiliate) <
> Feras.A.Habbal at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to save the matrix structure visualization from
>> (-mat_view_draw) to a file (jpeg, ps, or anything else).
>> I saw the post: "help in capturing matrix patterns to files,"
>>
>
> The easiest thing to do is use screen capture for that window.
>
>     Matt
>
>
>> but adding the options did not work for me:
>>  –mat_view_draw –draw_type ps
>>
>> I have been trying to do this with the example
>> file: ksp/examples/tutorials/ex1.c
>>
>> I included "petscdraw.h"
>>
>> $ mpiexec ex1 -mat_view_draw -draw_type ps
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>> ------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown type. Check for miss-spelling or missing external
>> package needed for type
>>  see
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/installation.html#external
>> !
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown PetscDraw type given: ps!
>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.2.0, Patch 3, Fri Sep 30 10:28:33
>> CDT 2011
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ex1 on a macosx-gn named habbalf.jpl.nasa.gov by habbalf
>> Wed Mar 21 14:56:30 2012
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from
>> /Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/petsc/install/lib
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Tue Mar  6 11:39:23 2012
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options
>> --prefix=/Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/petsc/install
>> --PETSC_DIR=/Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/petsc/src
>> --PETSC_ARCH=macosx-gnu
>> --with-mpi-dir=/Users/habbalf/issm/trunk-jpl/externalpackages/mpich2/install
>> --with-debugging=1 --download-c2html=1 --with-shared-libraries=0
>> --download-mumps=yes --download-scalapack=yes --download-blacs=yes
>> --download-blas=yes --download-plapack=yes --download-parmetis=yes
>> --download-f-blas-lapack=yes
>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscDrawSetType() line 147 in
>> src/sys/draw/interface/drawreg.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscDrawSetFromOptions() line 278 in
>> src/sys/draw/interface/drawreg.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscViewerDrawGetDraw() line 109 in
>> src/sys/viewer/impls/draw/drawv.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_SeqAIJ_Draw() line 752 in
>> src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_SeqAIJ() line 781 in src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView() line 757 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatView_Private() line 4881 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatAssemblyEnd() line 4965 in src/mat/interface/matrix.c
>> [0]PETSC ERROR: main() line 89 in src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex1.c
>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 86) - process 0
>>
>> Thank you for your assistance,
>>
>> Feras
>>
>
>
>
> --
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
>



-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
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