ParaView Developer’s Course
ParaView is a powerful open-source, multi-platform scientific data analysis and visualization tool that enables the analysis and visualization of extremely large datasets. The ParaView application provides you access to a distributed architecture that can be seamlessly leveraged by your desktop or other remote parallel computing resources. But this is only part of ParaView’s advantages. It also provides you with an extensible framework composed of a collection of tools and libraries for various applications including scripting (using Python), web visualization (through ParaViewWeb), or in-situ analysis (with Catalyst).
This course will allow you to look “under the hood” of the ParaView application and provide you with a detailed understanding of ParaView’s framework as well as how to customize it in order to better suit your visualization needs.
Attendee requirements: Personal computer with high-speed internet connection, ability to install and run Oracle Virtual Box.
Objectives
- Learn how to extend and modify ParaView
- Create custom ParaView-based applications for distribution
Prerequisites
- Basic C++ Programming
- Python Programming
- Some experience with Qt
- Experience with ParaView
- Familiarity with VTK is very helpful
Agenda
ParaView architecture
- Relationship to VTK
- Architecture concepts
- Proxies and properties
- ParaView build process
Extending ParaView with plugins
- XML plugins
- Python plugins
- C++ plugins
- Domains
- Extending the user interface through plugins
Custom ParaView applications
- ParaView GUI client
- Behaviors and reactions
- Creating proxies
- Exposing readers, sources, and filters
Packaging ParaView-based applications
- Using the superbuild
- Creating redistributable binaries
Practical Information
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About the Instructor
Cory Quammen is a technical leader on Kitware’s Scientific Computing Team based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His main area of focus is scientific visualization and he is a core developer of Kitware’s open source platforms, VTK and ParaView.
David Thompson is a principal engineer who aims to be a generalist. His interests include conceptual design, solid modeling, computational simulation and visualization, and mechatronics.