02 Visualization Pipeline

Content ParaView is an open-source multiple-platform application for interactive, scientific visualization. It has a client–server architecture to enable remote visualization of datasets. It can be driven with a feature-rich Python interface. ParaView is based on the VTK toolkit, a library for computer graphics, image processing and visualization. ParaView has been successfully used at CSCS in many fields ranging from Physics, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Molecular Science, Climate and Weather, Astro-physics, etc... This course combines lectures and hands-on sessions. The following topics will be covered: - ParaView latest features in version 5.6 and 5.7. - Data formats and data interfaces for efficient distributed computations. - Interactive and batch parallel visualization. - Single-node SMP parallelism, MPI-based parallelism. - Custom VTK python applications with simple Qt GUI. - Interfaces to standard Python packages, Python Programmable Filters. - Animation scripting, with steady or time-dependent data series. - Volume Rendering of scalar data. - Ray-tracing and Path-tracing (data, materials, progressive rendering). Target Audience This course addresses scientists with a strong interest in efficient scientific visualization of 3D data, for use on desktops and on our main Cray supercomputer. Instructor - Dr. Jean M. Favre, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre