Book Details:

Paperback: 378 pages
Publisher: Kitware, Inc. Version 3 (February 2008)
ISBN-13: 1-930934-21-4
ISBN-10: 1-930934-21-1
Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BUILD, INSTALL, RUN, AND EXTEND PARAVIEW!
Inside you will find everything you need to get started using and extending ParaView. This text includes introductions to parallel visualization and rendering, 3D interactions, level of detail, and scripting. A series of step-by-step tutorials walk you through a variety of different visualization tasks and how to accomplish them. Each aspect of the user interface is discussed and how it relates to the visualization in progress. The ParaView server manager is introduced which allows you to create your own parallel visualization applications by directly driving the server manager. The XML formats for extending ParaView with your own algorithms and file readers are covered in detail.

PARAVIEW'S CAPABILITIES

• ParaView supports reading and writing of data in a wide variety of formats including HDF5, VTK, EnSight, PLOT3D, Xdmf, AVSUCD, BYU, STL and many others.

• ParaView operates on a wide range of data formats including structured and unstructured grids, rectilinear grids, regular grids, and adaptive mesh refinement data sets.

• ParaView includes a comprehensive suite of visualization algorithms including contouring, clipping, streamlines, streamribbons, glyphing, LIC, and computed fields. These algorithms can all be used on a single computer or scaled up to a larger supercomputing cluster.

• ParaView includes support for tiled and stereo displays as well as parallel rendering.

THE ORIGINS OF PARAVIEW
ParaView was originally created by Kitware in conjunction with Jim Ahrens of the Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The goal of the project is to develop scalable parallel processing tools with an emphasis on distributed memory implementations. ParaView 3, with a new Qt user interface, multi-view support, and a focus on quantitative analysis, was developed by a team of Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories, and CSimSoft developers. Funding for ParaView has been provided by Los Alamos, Sandia, the Army Research Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and Kitware.

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