1. A very brief introduction to ParaView Jan Götz Erlangen 2007 Department of Computer Science 10 System Simulation

2. What is ParaView? Open-source, multi-platform visualization application. Supports distributed computation models to process large data sets. Has an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface. Extensible architecture based on open standards.

3. An example simple legacy serial file # vtk DataFile Version 4.0 Results ASCII DATASET STRUCTURED_POINTS DIMENSIONS 4 4 1 ORIGIN 0 0 0 SPACING 1 1 1.........................

4. An example simple legacy serial file(continued)................ POINT_DATA 16 SCALARS density double 1 LOOKUP_TABLE default 1.5 1.6 1.8 1.9................

5. More information http://www.paraview.org Wiki: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Wiki: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView For file formats: Book VTK Users Guide from our library or http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file- formats.pdf http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file- formats.pdf ParaView users guide: http://www.paraview.org/files/v1.6/ParaView UsersGuide.PDF http://www.paraview.org/files/v1.6/ParaView UsersGuide.PDF Try it out :-)