ParaView reads simulation output: flow fields, volumes, meshes and time series. These lessons run it in a browser session on a compute node, except the batch-rendering lesson, which sends it to a job. Each one teaches one thing in 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: open data, move around, color it, save a picture. It uses the example data that comes with ParaView, so you don't need files of your own.
To work on your own files instead, get your data where the app can see it first.
Lessons, by what they show
Lessons marked planned are being written.
| 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 |
Paths
A path puts lessons in order for one kind of work:
- Flow and transport: from your first session to streamlines through a simulated flow, in about 90 minutes.
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.