Instructor: Alex Razoumov (WestGrid)
Title: Basics of scientific visualization with ParaView
Abstract: ParaView is an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization tool designed to run on a variety of hardware from an individual laptop to large supercomputers. With ParaView users can interactively visualize 2- and 3-dimensional data defined on structured, adaptive and unstructured meshes or particles, animate these datasets in time, and manipulate them with a variety of filters. ParaView supports both interactive (GUI) and scripted (including offscreen) visualization, and is an easy and fun tool to learn.
This half-day introductory workshop will feature many interactive hands-on exercises, so attendees need to bring a laptop (and perhaps a power cord for use throughout the day) and should have ParaView installed (https://www.paraview.org/download) before the workshop. No prior visualization experience is required. We will provide all sample data and codes for the exercises, and you can bring your dataset if you want to visualize it with ParaView.
Target audience: anyone interested in 3D scientific visualization
Course plan:
- introduction to multidimensional visualization; tool comparison
- ParaView’s GUI overview
- importing your data into ParaView
- importing data into ParaView
- building a visualization pipeline (working with plots and filters)
- basic animation
More advanced animation, scripting and remote visualization will be covered in a separate Large-scale remote visualization with ParaView course in the afternoon.
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