FlashView

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FlashView

• Introduction
• Installing
• Controls
• Tutorials

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Introduction
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Introduction, cont.

• HDF5 flash data
• Linux
• Serial parallel
• Interactive batch
• Movies

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Introduction, cont.

• Concurrent display
• Grid
• Iso-surfaces of 5 variables
• Cutting planes of 5 variables
• Unique colormap per variable
• Three clipping planes

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Installing

• Building
• Libs
• VTK Visualization
• MPICH Parallelism
• FLTK GUI
• HDF5 Data
• CMake
• CMakeLists.txt
• ccmake ltsource_dirgt

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CMakeLists.txt

• Variable name Sample value
• CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY 1.8
• CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER g
• CMAKE_C_COMPILER gcc
• CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX bin
• CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE ON
• FLASHHDF_HEADERS
  /fvpath/FlashHDF5
• FLASHVTKCOMPONENTS_HEADERS
  /fvpath/FlashVTKComponents
• FLTK_GL_LIBRARY
  /fltkpath/lib/libfltk_gl.a
• FLTK_HEADERS
  /fltkpath/include
• FLTK_LIBRARY
  /fltkpath/lib/libfltk.a
• HDF_HEADERS /hdfpath/include
• HDF_LIBRARY
  /hdfpath/lib/libhdf5.so
• MPICH_HEADERS
  /mpichpath/include
• MPICH_LIBRARY
  /mpichpath/lib/libmpich.a
• VTKFLRENDERWINDOWINTERACTOR_HEADERS
  /fvpath/vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor
• VTK_COMMON_LIBRARY
  /vtkpath/lib/vtk/libvtkCommon.so
• VTK_FILTERING_LIBRARY
  /vtkpath/lib/vtk/libvtkFiltering.so
• VTK_GRAPHICS_LIBRARY
  /vtkpath/lib/vtk/libvtkGraphics.so

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ccmake
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Installing

• make
• make install

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Controls

• Interactive
• Menus
• File
• Open (CTL-O)
• Save image (CTL-I)
• Save UG (CTL-U)
• Quit (CTL-Q)
• Show
• Toggle axes and colorbars

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Controls, cont.

• Interactive, cont.
• Control panels
• Graphical display
• Resize
• Manipulate objects in scene
• vtkInteractorStyle

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Controls, cont.

• Interactive
• Control panels
• Global
• Display grid
• Load variables
• Active Variables
• Cutting planes
• Isosurfaces
• Colormaps
• Save objects to file
• Rendering
• Clipping
• Three planes
• Cutting planes
• Isosurfaces
• Grid

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Clipping
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Clipping, cont.
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Controls, cont.

• Interactive, cont.
• Control panels, cont.
• Information
• Number of polygons
• Area of isosurfaces
• Camera location

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Controls, cont.

• Batch
• Parameter file
• Single image
• Series of images movie
• Parallel

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Parameter.txt

• guitoggle true // GUI? If "true"
  (default), use only "mpelogtoggle" parameter
• infilename datafile // load data from this
  file
• outfilename outimg.ppm // save image to this file
  in batch mode (default "ltinfilegt.pnm")
• cam 1.0 2.0 3.0 // Absolute position, in
  world-space coordinates, of camera
• camfocus 0.0 0.0 0.0 // Absolute position, in
  world-space coordinates, of camera target
• winres 512 512 // X-Y resolution of image
  
• gridtoggle false // display data grid?
  ("true" or "false" (default))
• vnum1 3 // Index of single variable
  to activate
• cmap1 0 // Index, into
  "colormap-files/list", of variable's colormap
  file
• datamodel false // "ascii" write
  VTK ASCII, and VRML, isosurfaces to files
• dmprefix pfxname // prefix of names of all
  datamodel files written (batch mode)
• axestoggle true // toggle display of axes
  glyph ("true" or "false" (default))
• colorbarstoggle true // toggle display of color
  bars ("true" or "false" (default))
• xcut3 .1 .1 .1 // normalized loc of X cut
  planes in domain for 3 active variables
• isomode NORMAL // "ABSOLUTE" (default) or
  "NORMAL" ("NORMAL" means "normalized")
• iso3 .2 .3 .4 // iso values for 3 variables,
  absolute or normalized
• cmaprange3 ltmingt ltmaxgt ltmingt ltmaxgt ltmingt ltmaxgt //
  value ranges of 3 vars mapped to color
• cliporigin .5 .5 .5 // NORMALIZED X,Y,Z
  coords of intersection of 3 clipping planes
• cliptoggle true true true // toggle of X,Y,Z,
  resp., clip planes

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Colormap Editor

• General
• Python 2.2 or 2.3 with wxPython 2.5.3.1
• Windows or Linux
• Controls
• Menu
• Load file, Save file
• Upper Panel
• Show maps
• Manage control points
• Change data range
• Edit
• Lower Panel
• Color
• Opacity

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Tutorials - interactive

• Start
• Load file
• Load variable
• Show isosurface
• Show cutting planes
• Change color
• Clip objects
• Information
• Save image
• Save objects

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Start

• Parameters.txt at least guitoggle true
• Serial flashview
• Parallel
• (distribute app, parameters, colormaps)
• mpirun np ltnumprocsgt -machinefile ltmfilegt
  flashview

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Load File

• File-Open menu or CTL-O
• (file dialog)
• Enter input file name in dialog
• Global and Information panels

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Load Variable

• Select variable from drop-down menu
• Click Load button
• (Active Variables and Clipping panels)

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Show Isosurfaces

• Select tab for variable
• Move slider or enter value
• Repeat for lt 4 more variables
• Click Render Image button

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Show Cutting Planes

• Select tab for variable
• Move slider or enter value
• Repeat for lt 4 more variables
• Click Render Image button

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Change Color

• Choose colormap
• Select colormap
• Click Apply button
• Set log color
• Click Log button
• Click Apply button
• Change data range
• Enter new data values
• Click Apply button

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Clip Objects

• Select objects to clip
• Select clipping planes
• (Set normals and origin)
• (Click Invert button)
• Click Clip button

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Information
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Save Image

• File-Save Image or CTL-S
• (Image of Graphics panel saved to pnm file)

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Save Objects

• Displayed models of all variables
• Click ASC or BIN button at top of panel
• Displayed models of one variable
• Click ASC or BIN button at bottom of tab

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Tutorials - batch

• Start
• Parameters
• Serial
• Parallel
• One image
• Image series

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Start
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Parameters
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Serial
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Parallel
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One Image
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Image Series