Overview
ParaView is a popular open-source application for the visualization of 2D and 3D scientific data. It is designed to run on a desk top (or parallel cluster for large data) and comes packaged with a wide variety of scientific software. Its graphical user interface (GUI) makes it quick to test visualization techniques on data. Once suitable techniques are selected you can build your own bespoke ParaView application, called a state, or use the knowledge gained to program your own application in another system/language.
This is a general hands-on course that introduces some of the basic visualization techniques using research data produced at the University of Leeds. Harder python exercises are being piloted at the end of the course. It covers:
- an overview of the GUI
- how to load, save and reset a state
- how to alter data using the calculator
- using contours (isolines and isosurfaces)
- clipping regions of interest
- using multiple views to show related views of a single data set
- using colour and setting your colour map
- placing titles in the view and saving images
- creating an animation
- tracing python scripts, editing traces to lead to writing and scripts and running them in batch
Videos
Visualisation with Paraview - Part 1
Visualisation with Paraview - Part 2
Alternatively you can follow these links to see the videos:
Paraview Guide
The PDF below will take you through all of the steps you need to install Paraview on your local desktop machine.
We would recommend doing this as soon as possible in case you encounter any issues, for example restrictions placed on devices by your local IT team.
Paraview Setup Guide
Additional Data
These are the files and data for the workshop.
Please download and unzip the file so that you have everything you need ahead of the session. Joanna and Jonathan will show you how to use them during the workshop.
data.zip
Slides
This PDF contains the slides from the Paraview workshop, delivered by Joanna Leng and Jonathan Pickering.
VisualizationBasicsParaView5.10_thanks.pdf
Crib Sheets
These two documents contain information and shortcuts to help you navigate Paraview more easily.
ParaViewCribSheet.pdf
ParaViewPythonCribSheet.pdf
Exercises
These are the exercises that are explained and explored in the Paraview workshop.
ExercisesParaView.pdf
