[Paraview] ParaView + Catalyst - effort estimation (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Tim Gallagher]

Hi Simon,

I've gone through the process myself and it actually was not that painful, but how long it takes will depend on how familiar you are with VTK already. It's almost trivial if your code's data structures already use VTK. If they don't, then it's a matter of translating your data into the VTK data structures which isn't too bad in Python. 

Our code is in Fortran and is a parallel, finite volume, structured, multi-block code. So in some ways it's a bit easier to define the data structures in VTK as they are structured and I don't need to worry about connectivity. I wrote the wrappers and interface code in less than a week with no prior knowledge of VTK but a very strong desire to make it work :) This was a few years back when the documentation on Catalyst wasn't very mature so it was probably harder than it would have been now. 

I can't be any more specific or give you advice on how long it will take with your code, but it was much easier than I expected it to be when I did it. 

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon M CTR USARMY ARL Su (US)" <simon.m.su.ctr at mail.mil>
To: paraview at paraview.org
Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 4:29:52 PM
Subject: [Paraview] ParaView + Catalyst - effort estimation (UNCLASSIFIED)

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Hello,

>From a tutorial I attended on ParaView + Catalyst, I sort of get the idea of
all the parts involved. However, from effort point of view, on an average
case, how many man hours would be estimated to develop a Catalyst Bridge and
get it to work in ParaView for a homegrown discrete element method code
written in python with some functionality in wrapped fortran, but the data
needed for visualization is exposed to python? Just a ballpark guess
(min/max would be nice). I want to know how big of a project I am getting
myself into... :)

Thanks
-simon

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