ParaView reads simulation output: flow fields, volumes, meshes and time series. These lessons run ParaView on a compute node and show it in your browser. The batch-rendering lesson submits a job instead. Each takes 5 to 15 minutes.
Note
Cluster details. Highlighted values are placeholders. AMA27's queue names, module versions, paths and addresses go in when the cluster is deployed.
Start here
- Start an OnDemand session, if you haven't run one before.
- Start ParaView on OnDemand: opening a file, moving around it, coloring it and saving a picture. It uses ParaView's own example data, so you need no files of your own.
To work on your own files instead, get your data where the app can see it first.
Lessons
Lessons marked planned have not been written yet.
| What you want to see | Lesson | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| Densities and volumes | Slices through a volume (planned) | 10 |
| Isosurfaces: choosing an isovalue (planned) | 10 | |
| Volume rendering and transfer functions (planned) | 15 | |
| Orbitals and electron density from a cube file | 15 | |
| One field on another's surface (planned) | 15 | |
| Vector fields | Streamlines through a flow field | 10 |
| Arrows on a slice (planned) | 10 | |
| Values along a line (planned) | 5 | |
| Derived fields: vorticity and Q-criterion (planned) | 15 | |
| Time series and batch work | Animate a time series (planned) | 10 |
| From clicks to a script (planned) | 15 | |
| Batch rendering in a job (planned) | 15 | |
| Make your own data | A synthetic volume (planned) | 5 |
The same lesson in another program
Two of these lessons also have versions for MATLAB, PyMOL, ChimeraX and GaussView. The topic pages compare them: streamlines and orbitals and electron density.