Visualization

External documentation for popular visualization packages

ParaView

ParaView is a general-purpose 3D scientific visualization tool. It is open source and compiles on all popular platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac), understands a large number of input file formats, provides multiple rendering modes, supports Python scripting, and can scale up to tens of thousands of processors for rendering of very large datasets.

• ParaView official documentation
• ParaView wiki
• ParaView Python scripting

VMD

VMD is an open-source molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems in 3D. It supports scripting in Tcl and Python and runs on a variety of platforms (MacOS X, Linux, Windows). It reads many molecular data formats using an extensible plugin system and supports a number of different molecular representations.

• VMD User's Guide

VTK

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source package for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. It consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. VTK is the base of many excellent visualization packages including ParaView and VisIt.

• VTK tutorials

Regional consortium visualization pages

• WestGrid: visualization quickstart guide, remote visualization, batch rendering

Visualization gallery

You can find a gallery of visualizations based on models run on Compute Canada systems in the visualization gallery.

How to get visualization help

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