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. -- stephen.wornom at inria.fr 2004 route des lucioles - BP93 Sophia Antipolis 06902 CEDEX Tel: 04 92 38 50 54 Fax: 04 97 15 53 51 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: stephen_wornom.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 160 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20110705/5d409b73/attachment.vcf>