ParaView/Users Guide/Table Of Contents

Introduction

• Basic introduction to main window and inspector
• Overview of pipeline concept
• Undo/Redo
• save state/trace
• ClientServer computing/large data vis/parallel

This section should serve as a quick introduction to all the paraview functionality.

Loading Data

• Open file
• file browser, file series and patterns, groupping in file browser, opening a single time step or a collection of timesteps
• file formats
• information tab
• statistics panel
• time
• Apply/Reset

Display Data

• multi-views
• interaction
• View Types/Representation: Talk of all the views
• lookup tables/scalar ranges
• cube axis
• scalar bar

Filtering Data

• Overview of how to apply filters
  • multiple input/output
  • change input
  • why are filters disabled
• Apply/Reset
• List of filters in categories: a higher level classification of filters based on their functionality and then refer them to the details given later.
• filters changing data types
• 3D widgets -- how they affect parameters and active view etc.
• custom filters

Saving Data

• Save raw data
• Save screenshots
• Save movies
• Save geometries
• Export VRML/X3D.

3D Widgets

• Different widgets and shortcuts etc.

Annotation

• time annotation
• scalar bar
• text annotation
• cube axes

Animation

• key frame
• camera
• play modes
• time

Comparative Vis

• Panel/view

Client-Server Visualization

• server setup
• configuration files
• parallel rendering/processing
• parallel settings

Large Displays

• tile displays/cave

Quantative Analysis

• python programmable filter
• selection/query
• calculator
• spreadsheet view in details (just introduce it in the views section)
• histograms/probes

Python

• save trace/state
• macros
• python scripting api
• pvbatch/pvpython

Misc

• loading plugins/plugin manager
• building/compile/install
• command line arguments