3D scientific visualization with ParaView

Tuesday, July 19  &  Thursday, July 21
9:30am–12:30pm Pacific Time

This course will start at 9:30am Pacific Time and will run until 12:30pm Pacific Time on both days. Course materials will be added here shortly before the start of the course.

We will study 3D scientific visualization with ParaView, an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization tool designed to run on a variety of hardware from an individual laptop to large supercomputers. With ParaView users can interactively visualize 2D and 3D data sets defined on structured, adaptive and unstructured meshes or particles, animate these datasets in time, and manipulate them with a variety of filters. ParaView supports both interactive (GUI) and scripted (including offscreen) visualization, and is an easy and fun tool to learn.

Instructor: Alex Razoumov (SFU)

Prerequisites: This is an introductory course, no prior visualization experience is required.

Software: Please install ParaView on your computer, and make sure you can start it before the course. As of this writing, the latest ParaView version is 5.10.1 – it should work nicely for our workshop. We will provide all sample data and codes for the exercises. Let us know before or during the course if you want to load your own dataset into ParaView.

Zoom   Day 1 - 9:30am-12:30pm Pacific
Day 1 session

    Optional videos to watch on your own :
Introduction (28 min)
ParaView architecture and GUI (11 min)
Importing data into ParaView (29 min)
Working with ParaView filters (35 min)

Zoom   Day 2 - 9:30am-12:30pm Pacific
Day 2 session

    Optional videos to watch on your own :
Exporting scenes (5 min)
Animation in ParaView (14 min)
Python scripting in ParaView (30 min)
Remote and distributed visualization (37 min)
Summary (4 min)