ParaView: An End-User Tool for Large-Data Visualization
JAMES AHRENS, Los Alamos National Laboratory
BERK GEVECI and CHARLES LAW, Kitware, Inc.
36.1 Introduction
This chapter describes the design and features of a visualization tool called ParaView (http://www.paraview.org), a tool that allows scientists to visualize and analyze extremely large datasets. The tool provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for the creation and dynamic execution of visualization tasks. ParaView transparently supports the visualization and rendering of large datasets by executing these programs in parallel on shared or distributed memory machines. ParaView supports hardware-accelerated parallel rendering and achieves interactive rendering performance ...
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