Short Tutorial
From VisItusers.org
This pages has materials for two tutorials: "Introduction to VisIt" and "Advanced VisIt usage". The tutorials will walk you through how to use VisIt.
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Tutorial #1: Introduction to VisIt
Powerpoint material here. This material contains both the introduction and a conclusion at the end about how to install VisIt, get support, etc.
Tutorial #2: Advanced VisIt Usage
Powerpoint material here. This material contains both the introduction, the conclusion and a few slides that are used in between.
- Comparison (note that there are a few introductory slides in the PPT)
- Alternate data representations (note there is some explanation about parallel coordinates in the PPT)
- Advanced scripting
- Advanced moviemaking
- Using VisIt in situ
- Special topic: material interface reconstruction
- Special topic: molecular visualization
Abstract
VisIt is a free interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for scientific data. Users can quickly generate visualizations from their data, animate them through time, manipulate them, and save the resulting images for presentations. VisIt contains a rich set of visualization features so data can be viewed in a variety of ways. The Advanced VisIt Usage tutorial shows the casual VisIt user how to more effectively use the software for visualization, presentation, and data analysis in order to enable discovery and communication. Topics covered include methods for comparing multiple simulation outputs, coupling VisIt and a simulation in situ, advanced Python scripting, movie-making, queries, and data selections. Alternate plotting representations such as Scatter plots, Parallel Coordinate plots, Material plots, and Molecule plots are also covered. Tutorial attendees are assumed to have prior experience using VisIt or other visualization software.
Tutorials past and future
Previous Tutorials
The short tutorial has been given at:
- SciDAC 2008, Seattle, WA, July 2008
- CScADS Workshop, Snowbird, UT, July 2008
- SciDAC 2009, San Diego, CA, June 2009
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, July 2009
- ACTS Workshop 2009, Berkeley, CA, August 2009
- NERSC Users Group Meeting, Boulder, CO, October 2009
- Vis09, Atlantic City, NJ, October 2009
- SC09, Portland, OR, November 2009
- SciDAC 2010, Chattanooga, TN, July 2010
- Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, MD, September, 2010
- SC10, New Orleans, LA, November 2010
- KAUST Winter Enrichment Program, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, January 2011
- PRACE Winter School, Nicosia, Cyprus, January 2011
- AWE, Aldermaston, UK, April 2011
- ISC'11, Hamburg, Germany, June 2011
- ACTS Workshop 2011 Berkeley, CA, August 2011
The advanced tutorial has been given at:
- SC10, New Orleans, LA, November 2010
Upcoming tutorials
- ISC'12, Hamburg, Germany, June 2012
- UGC 2012, New Orleans, LA, June 2012
- More tutorials anticipated for the summer of 2012!
Other resources
The idea behind the tutorial is to provide a quick introduction to many features in VisIt. Note that the VisIt Class, which is much more thorough, can be found here.
