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). It 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. http://www.paraview.org/documentation/

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

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.