ParaView Reference Manual

• 1. Properties Panel
  • 1.1. Anatomy of the Properties panel
    • 1.1.1. Buttons
    • 1.1.2. Search box
    • 1.1.3. Properties
  • 1.2. Customizing the layout
• 2. Object Shading Properties
  • 2.1. Flat and Gouraud Lighting
  • 2.2. PBR Lighting
• 3. Light Inspector
  • 3.1. Light Kit
  • 3.2. Additional Light Sources
  • 3.3. Configuring Lights in pvpython
• 4. Color maps and transfer functions
  • 4.1. The basics
    • 4.1.1. Color mapping in paraview
    • 4.1.2. Color mapping in pvpython
  • 4.2. Editing the transfer functions in paraview
    • 4.2.1. Separate Color Map
    • 4.2.2. Mapping data
    • 4.2.3. Transfer function editor
    • 4.2.4. Color mapping parameters
  • 4.3. Editing the transfer functions in pvpython
  • 4.4. Color legend
    • 4.4.1. Color legend parameters
    • 4.4.2. Color legend in pvpython
  • 4.5. Annotations
    • 4.5.1. Annotations in pvpython
  • 4.6. Categorical colors
    • 4.6.1. Categorical Color: User Interface
    • 4.6.2. Categorical colors in pvpython
• 5. Comparative visualization
  • 5.1. Setting up a comparative view
  • 5.2. Setting up a parameter study
  • 5.3. Adding annotations
• 6. Programmable Filter
  • 6.1. Understanding the programmable modules
  • 6.2. Recipes for Programmable Source
    • 6.2.1. Reading a CSV file
    • 6.2.2. Reading a CSV file series
    • 6.2.3. Reading a CSV file with particles
    • 6.2.4. Reading binary 2D image
    • 6.2.5. Helix source
  • 6.3. Recipes for Programmable Filter
    • 6.3.1. Adding a new point/cell data array based on an input array
    • 6.3.2. Computing tetrahedra volume
    • 6.3.3. Labeling common points between two datasets
  • 6.4. Recipes for Programmable Annotation
    • 6.4.1. Displaying the number of cells with a non-zero volume
    • 6.4.2. Display system and date information
  • 6.5. Python Algorithm
• 7. Using NumPy for processing data
  • 7.1. Teaser
  • 7.2. Understanding the dataset_adapter module
    • 7.2.1. Dataset attributes
  • 7.3. Working with arrays
    • 7.3.1. The array API
    • 7.3.2. Algorithms
  • 7.4. Handling composite datasets
• 8. Remote and parallel visualization
  • 8.1. Understanding remote processing
  • 8.2. Remote visualization in paraview
    • 8.2.1. Starting a remote server
    • 8.2.2. Configuring a server connection
    • 8.2.3. Connect to the remote server
    • 8.2.4. Managing multiple clients
    • 8.2.5. Setting up a client/server visualization pipeline
  • 8.3. Remote visualization in pvpython
  • 8.4. Reverse connections
  • 8.5. ParaView Server Configuration Files
    • 8.5.1. Case One: Simple command server startup
    • 8.5.2. Case Two: Simple remote server connection
    • 8.5.3. Case Three: Server connection with user-specified port
    • 8.5.4. Case Four: Simple connection to a data-server/render-server
    • 8.5.5. Case Five: Connection to a data-server/render-server with user specified server port
    • 8.5.6. Case Six: Reverse Connection
    • 8.5.7. Case Seven: Server command with option
    • 8.5.8. Case Eight: Using connection-id and random port
    • 8.5.9. Case Nine: Starting server using ssh
    • 8.5.10. Case Ten: Starting server using custom script with custom user-settable options
    • 8.5.11. Case Eleven: Case Ten + Switch Statement
    • 8.5.12. Case Twelve: Simple SSH run server command
    • 8.5.13. Case Thirteen: SSH run server command with complex config
    • 8.5.14. Case Fourteen: SSH run server command with user chosen config
    • 8.5.15. Case Fifteen: Ssh run server command with reverse connection
    • 8.5.16. Case Sixteen: Secured Connection to a Server through SSH tunnel
    • 8.5.17. Case Seventeen: Secured Reverse Connection from a HPC node through SSH tunnel running on a gateway
    • 8.5.18. Case Eighteen: Secured Reverse Connection from a HPC node through SSH tunnel running on a gateway using random or user-specified port
    • 8.5.19. PVSC file XML Schema
    • 8.5.20. Startup Command Variables
  • 8.6. Understanding parallel processing
    • 8.6.1. Ghost levels
    • 8.6.2. Data partitioning
    • 8.6.3. D3 Filter
  • 8.7. Parallel File Readers
    • 8.7.1. ADIOS2 BP3 File (using Fides), ADIOS2 BP4/5 Directory (using Fides)
    • 8.7.2. AMReX/BoxLib plotfiles (grids)
    • 8.7.3. AMReX/BoxLib plotfiles (particles)
    • 8.7.4. AMR Velodyne Files
    • 8.7.5. CGNS Files
    • 8.7.6. CellGrid Files
    • 8.7.7. Cosmology Files
    • 8.7.8. EnSight Gold files (EnSightGoldCombinedReader plugin)
    • 8.7.9. EnSight Gold Server of Server (SOS) files (EnSightSOSGoldReader plugin)
    • 8.7.10. EnSight Files
    • 8.7.11. EnSight Master Server Files
    • 8.7.12. ENZO AMR Particles Reader
    • 8.7.13. Exodus II (legacy)
    • 8.7.14. Metafile for restarted exodus outputs
    • 8.7.15. Fides Data Model File (JSON)
    • 8.7.16. GenericIO files to UnstructuredGrid
    • 8.7.17. GenericIO files to MultiBlockDataSet
    • 8.7.18. IOSS Files (Exodus II and CGNS)
    • 8.7.19. IOSS Files (exdg)
    • 8.7.20. LSDyna
    • 8.7.21. Nek5000 Files
    • 8.7.22. Nrrd Raw Image Files
    • 8.7.23. OpenFOAM Files
    • 8.7.24. PIO Dump Files
    • 8.7.25. PLOT3D Meta Files
    • 8.7.26. PLOT3D Solution Files
    • 8.7.27. POP Ocean NetCDF (Rectilinear)
    • 8.7.28. POP Ocean NetCDF (Unstructured)
    • 8.7.29. Rage HDF Files
    • 8.7.30. SLAC Mesh Files
    • 8.7.31. SpyPlot CTH dataset
    • 8.7.32. Case file for restarted CTH outputs
    • 8.7.33. VPIC Files
    • 8.7.34. Legacy VTK Files (partitioned)
    • 8.7.35. VTKHDF Files
    • 8.7.36. VTK ImageData Files (partitioned)
    • 8.7.37. (VTK) HyperTreeGrid (partitioned)
    • 8.7.38. VTK PolyData Files (partitioned)
    • 8.7.39. VTK RectilinearGrid Files (partitioned)
    • 8.7.40. VTK StructuredGrid Files (partitioned)
    • 8.7.41. VTK Table (partitioned)
    • 8.7.42. VTK UnstructuredGrid Files (partitioned)
    • 8.7.43. VTX reader: ADIOS2 BP3 File, VTX reader: ADIOS2 BP4 Directory
    • 8.7.44. WindBlade Data
    • 8.7.45. Xdmf Reader (XDMF 2)
    • 8.7.46. Xdmf3 Reader
    • 8.7.47. Xdmf3 Reader (Top Level Partition)
  • 8.8. Parallel File Writers
    • 8.8.1. ADIOS2 BP File
    • 8.8.2. CGNS Files
    • 8.8.3. Comma or Tab Delimited Files
    • 8.8.4. EnSight File
    • 8.8.5. Generic IO Files
    • 8.8.6. Houdini File Format
    • 8.8.7. IOSS Exodus File
    • 8.8.8. ExodusII File (legacy)
    • 8.8.9. Wavefront OBJ File Format
    • 8.8.10. OpenVDB File Format
    • 8.8.11. Legacy VTK Files (polydata)
    • 8.8.12. Legacy VTK Files (unstructured grid)
    • 8.8.13. PVTK Hyper Tree Grid Files (XML)
    • 8.8.14. PVTK ImageData Files (XML)
    • 8.8.15. VTK Multi Block Files (XML)
    • 8.8.16. VTK Multi Block Files (hypertree grid)
    • 8.8.17. VTK Partitioned Data Set Files (XML)
    • 8.8.18. VTK PartitionedDataSetCollection Files (XML)
    • 8.8.19. PVTK PolyData Files (XML)
    • 8.8.20. PVTK RectilinearGrid Files (XML)
    • 8.8.21. PVTK StructuredGrid Files (XML)
    • 8.8.22. VTK AMR Files (XML)
    • 8.8.23. Stereo Lithography File Format
    • 8.8.24. VTKHDF Files
    • 8.8.25. Xdmf3 Data File
  • 8.9. Ghost Cells Generation
  • 8.10. ParaView architecture
  • 8.11. Parallel processing in paraview and pvpython
  • 8.12. Using pvbatch
  • 8.13. Fetching data to the client
  • 8.14. Rendering
    • 8.14.1. Basic Rendering Settings
    • 8.14.2. Basic Parallel Rendering
    • 8.14.3. Image Level of Detail
    • 8.14.4. Parallel Render Parameters
    • 8.14.5. Parameters for Large Data
• 9. Restarted Simulation Readers
  • 9.1. Exodus
    • 9.1.1. Exodus Naming Conventions
    • 9.1.2. Exodus Time Series Case Files
  • 9.2. SPCTH
  • 9.3. Acknowledgments
• 10. Memory Inspector
  • 10.1. User interface and layout
  • 10.2. Advanced debugging features
    • 10.2.1. Remote commands
    • 10.2.2. Stack trace signal handler
  • 10.3. Compilation and installation considerations
• 11. Multiblock Inspector
• 12. Annotations
  • 12.1. Annotation sources
    • 12.1.1. Text source
    • 12.1.2. Annotate Time source
  • 12.2. Annotation filters
    • 12.2.1. Annotate Attribute Data filter
    • 12.2.2. Annotate Global Data filter
    • 12.2.3. Annotate Time Filter
    • 12.2.4. Environment Annotation filter
    • 12.2.5. Python Annotation filter
• 13. Axes Grid
  • 13.1. The basics
  • 13.2. Use cases
  • 13.3. Axes Grid in pvpython
  • 13.4. Data Axes Grid
  • 13.5. The Polar Axes
  • 13.6. Legend Grid and Polar Grid
• 14. Customizing ParaView
  • 14.1. Settings
    • 14.1.1. General settings
    • 14.1.2. Camera settings
    • 14.1.3. Render View settings
    • 14.1.4. Color Palette
  • 14.2. Custom default settings
    • 14.2.1. Customizing defaults for properties
    • 14.2.2. Example: specifying a custom background color
  • 14.3. Configuration files
    • 14.3.1. Configuring settings with JSON
    • 14.3.2. Configuring server settings
    • 14.3.3. Configuring application environment
    • 14.3.4. Property Panel Visibilities
  • 14.4. Configuration locations
    • 14.4.1. User settings: configuration at the user level
    • 14.4.2. Site settings: configuration at installation level
• 15. Advanced rendering
  • 15.1. The basics
  • 15.2. Rendering backends
  • 15.3. Rasterization to path tracing
  • 15.4. Materials
    • 15.4.1. Loading Materials
    • 15.4.2. Applying a material
    • 15.4.3. Multiple materials per object