Should we make a new viewer based on VTK binary that automatically manages the multiple files and headers etc?
Barry On Jul 4, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 21:44, Barry Smith <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 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.
