[Paraview] building paraview with vtkManta

Wed Jul 23 14:08:09 EDT 2014

As promised a manta enabled paraview build script.

In the superbuild there are patches for this version of manta that fix a
couple of minor compilation issues on recent compilers.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:40 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks
>> What kind of experience can I expect?  I couldn’t find a description,
>> tutorial or other presentation on the subject other than the page I
>> stumbled across.
>>
>
> There isn't much to it so far. Basically vtkManta is just a drop in
> replacement for OpenGL rendering of surfaces.
>
> There are a few extra controls available on the display section of the
> properties tab for per object display options (material type - metal,
> dielectric etc) and view section (restored just last week in master) for
> scene wide display options (enable shadows, rays per pixel, number of manta
> threads etc).
>
> There are not enough controls available to make it the right option for
> really high quality (aesthetically pleasing) renderings. In its current
> level of development you are better off File->Exporting the scene and then
> importing it into some other system as you are doing. Given enough interest
> we can of course improve on it from where it sits now and turn it into such
> an option.
>
> I’m hoping this will scale better than e.g blender does, where I’m hitting
>> size limitations at disappointing scales.  I’m dusting off my old POVray
>> stuff and I recall being seriously limited there as well in terms of size
>> and speed but haven’t gotten it working again yet to be able to tell if
>> it’s the same now as it was.
>>
>
> Scaling should be fine. Scaling is what LANL built it for (
> http://viz.lanl.gov/publication/presentation/L2.pdf). You can render tens
> of millions of triangles on a modern workstation interactively with it. In
> HPC settings my personal record is 10 billion triangles (from a synthetic
> test data set) at ~10 frames per second. That was with no secondary rays of
> course, and only after significant queue wait and setup wait times.
>
>
>
>> I’d love to see your build script, thanks.
>>
>
> Sure, will send it shortly.
>
>
>>  — Rich
>>
>>  On Jul 17, 2014, at 6:55 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hey Rich,
>>
>>  I just ran across mention of vtkManta support in paraview.
>>>
>>
>>  Wow, 2010? You've got some catching up to do. :)
>>
>>  It still compiles, runs and passes high level tests tests. The nightly
>> linux binaries have it if you want to try it out quickly.
>>
>>  To compile it you need to:
>> * compile manta (specifically r2439)
>> * configure paraview with PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_MantaView ON and
>> MANTA_BUILD variable pointed to your manta build tree.
>>
>>  Let me know if you need the exact syntax for unattended builds and I'll
>> send you a shell script.
>>
>>   How solid is this?
>>>
>>
>>  I am aware of a couple of bugs that have crept in while this has been
>> in cold storage (i.e. no project since the initial LANL push to pick up
>> development on it).
>>  * Manta (r2439 specifically) needs patches for OSX 10.8+ and MSVC.
>> * View level options are not exposed in the GUI (very recent regression)
>> * off by one bug in point associated color mapping (probably old)
>>
>>  We did get to the "future work" item from that article about
>> integrating manta at the Renderer level so that OpenGL and Manta can
>> coexist and it can be used in standalone builds.
>>
>>  TACC is working on something that will address the limitation that
>> secondary rays don't work in HPC contexts.
>>
>>  Feel free to send me or the list emails for help getting it running.
>>
>>  cheers,
>>
>>  David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Cook, Rich <cook47 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>  I just ran across mention of vtkManta support in paraview.
>>>
>>> http://www.kitware.com/media/html/RenderedRealismAtNearlyRealTimeRates.html
>>>
>>>  Yay!  Yay?
>>>
>>>  How solid is this?  The documentation how to enable is pretty vague.
>>> "To use vtkManta in ParaView, simply build Manta as described above,
>>> and then turn on both shared libraries and the Manta plug-in when you build
>>> ParaView. You will then have to specify the location of the Manta source
>>> and build trees as described above.”
>>>
>>>  Changing my paraview build is always a daunting experience but the
>>> idea of getting this working is very attractive.  What are the magic flags
>>> to cmake?   My builds are automated and interacting with ccmake is
>>> problematic on a build farm.
>>>
>>>  Here’s what I currently do.  Can you see why I’m confused?   :-)
>>> Is there just a -DVTK_MANTA flag?  Do I still turn OSMESA on?
>>>
>>>  Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>>       $CMAKE_PATH/bin/cmake \
>>>         $CMAKE_SPECIAL_ARGS \
>>>         -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON:BOOL=ON \
>>> -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI:BOOL=OFF \
>>> -DVTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA:BOOL=ON \
>>>   -DOSMESA_LIBRARY:FILEPATH='/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so' \
>>>   -DVTK_USE_OFFSCREEN:BOOL=ON -DOPENGL_gl_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=
>>> -DVTK_USE_X:BOOL=OFF" \
>>>          -DQT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE:FILEPATH=$QT_PATH/bin/qmake.real \
>>>         -DOPENGL_glu_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="/usr/lib64/libGLU.so" \
>>>         -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH="$INSTALL_DIR" \
>>>         -DPARAVIEW_USE_BOOST:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DPARAVIEW_USE_VISITBRIDGE:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DVISIT_BUILD_READER_CGNS:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DVISIT_BUILD_READER_Mili:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DVISIT_BUILD_READER_Silo:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DCGNS_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="${CGNS_PATH}/include" \
>>>
>>> -DCGNS_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="${CGNS_PATH}/lib/libcgns.so;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>         -DMILI_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="$MILI_PATH/include" \
>>>
>>> -DMILI_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="$MILI_PATH/lib/libmili.a;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>         -DSILO_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="$SILO_PATH/include;$MILI_PATH/include" \
>>>
>>> -DSILO_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="$SILO_PATH/lib/libsiloh5.a;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>         -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="${BOOST_PATH}/include" \
>>>         -DBoost_LIBRARY_DIRS:FILEPATH="${BOOST_PATH}/lib" \
>>>         -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS:STRING="$LINKER_FLAGS" \
>>>         -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_DEBUG:STRING="$LINKER_FLAGS" \
>>>         -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING=" -I$MILI_PATH/include
>>> -I$HDF5_PATH/include  -I${MPI_PATH}/include " \
>>>         -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="  -I$MILI_PATH/include
>>> -I$HDF5_PATH/include  -I${MPI_PATH}/include " \
>>>         -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_HDF5:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DHDF5_ENABLE_SZIP_SUPPORT:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DHDF5_DIR:PATH="$HDF5_PATH" \
>>>         -DHDF5_C_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="$HDF5_PATH/include" \
>>>         -DHDF5_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="$HDF5_PATH/include" \
>>>         -DHDF5_HL_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="$HDF5_PATH/include" \
>>>
>>> -DHDF5_hdf5_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="$HDF5_PATH/lib/libhdf5.so;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>
>>> -DHDF5_hdf5_LIBRARY_DEBUG:FILEPATH="$HDF5_PATH/lib/libhdf5.so;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>
>>> -DHDF5_hdf5_LIBRARY_RELEASE:FILEPATH="$HDF5_PATH/lib/libhdf5.so;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>
>>> -DHDF5_hdf5_hl_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="$HDF5_PATH/lib/libhdf5_hl.so;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>
>>> -DHDF5_hdf5_hl_LIBRARY_DEBUG:FILEPATH="$HDF5_PATH/lib/libhdf5_hl.so;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>
>>> -DHDF5_hdf5_hl_LIBRARY_RELEASE:FILEPATH="$HDF5_PATH/lib/libhdf5_hl.so;$SZIP_PATH/lib/libsz.so;/usr/lib64/libz.so"
>>> \
>>>         -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON \
>>>         -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF \
>>>         $PARAVIEW_SOURCE || errexit "cmake exited with an error status.
>>> Please try again."
>>>
>>>
>>>  --
>>> ✐Richard Cook
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>>> (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>  --
>> ✐Richard Cook
>> ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>> Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557
>> 7000 East Avenue,  Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
>> ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605
>> ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961
>> ---
>> Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div.,
>> Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.
>> (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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