ParaView/Users Guide/Table Of Contents

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Introduction

  • Basic introduction to main window and inspector
  • Overview of pipeline concept
  • Undo/Redo
  • save state/trace
  • ClientServer computing/large data vis/parallel

This section should serve as a quick introduction to all the paraview functionality.

Loading Data

  • Open file
  • file browser, file series and patterns, groupping in file browser, opening a single time step or a collection of timesteps
  • file formats
  • information tab
  • statistics panel
  • time
  • Apply/Reset

Display Data

  • multi-views
  • interaction
  • View Types/Representation: Talk of all the views
  • lookup tables/scalar ranges
  • cube axis
  • scalar bar

Filtering Data

  • Overview of how to apply filters
    • multiple input/output
    • change input
    • why are filters disabled
  • Apply/Reset
  • List of filters in categories: a higher level classification of filters based on their functionality and then refer them to the details given later.
  • filters changing data types
  • 3D widgets -- how they affect parameters and active view etc.
  • custom filters

Saving Data

  • Save raw data
  • Save screenshots
  • Save movies
  • Save geometries
  • Export VRML/X3D.

3D Widgets

  • Different widgets and shortcuts etc.

Annotation

  • time annotation
  • scalar bar
  • text annotation
  • cube axes

Animation

  • key frame
  • camera
  • play modes
  • time

Comparative Vis

  • Panel/view

Client-Server Visualization

  • server setup
  • configuration files
  • parallel rendering/processing
  • parallel settings

Large Displays

  • tile displays/cave

Quantative Analysis

  • python programmable filter
  • selection/query
  • calculator
  • spreadsheet view in details (just introduce it in the views section)
  • histograms/probes

Python

  • save trace/state
  • macros
  • python scripting api
  • pvbatch/pvpython

In-Situ

Misc

  • loading plugins/plugin manager
  • building/compile/install
  • command line arguments