About visu

The visu project, pronounced as "vih-zoo", consists of a lightweight simulation data visualization tool distributed under the GNU GPL.

The current version of visu is able to extract 2D or 3D raw data from files and can display it in different ways:

• as scalars with a color scale applied to cutting planes and isosurfaces;
• as a height field;
• as vectors;
• as a set of phases interfaces.

The latter mode displays the zero level of a set of level set functions, indicating that some phase is present or absent in the concerned element of space.

The visualization part of visu makes use of the VTK library. The user interface has been implemented using the GTK+ library.

In order to compile and run, visu needs:

• OpenGL;
• the VTK 4.2 library with the hybrid option compiled in;
• the GTK+ 2.0 library;
• the gtkmm2 library, a C++ wrapper for GTK+;
• the gtkglextmm 0.6.1 library, which gives any GTK+ widget OpenGL capability.

I'm David Munger and I'm studying computational fluid dynamics at University of Montreal. I developped visu in order to visualize the results of my simulations.