Instructor: Alex Razoumov (WestGrid)
Title: Basics of scientific visualization with ParaView
ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization tool. With ParaView you can interactively visualize and analyze 2D and 3D spatial data, animate these datasets in time, and manipulate them with a variety of filters.
Target audience: anyone interested in 3D scientific visualization
Course plan:
- introduction and tool comparison
- ParaView GUI overview
- importing your data into ParaView
- building workflows with filters
- basic animation
Duration: 3 hours
Level: beginner
Prerequisites: Attendees should bring their laptops with the latest version of ParaView installed from http://www.paraview.org/download. No prior visualization experience is required. We will provide sample data and codes for many interactive hands-on exercises, and you can bring your dataset if you would like to visualize it with ParaView.
Setup:
- Laptop software: ParaView installed from https://www.paraview.org