On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Boyce Griffith wrote: > I'd love to see VisIt become the libMesh viewer of choice! However, right > now, it seems like most of the output formats supported by libMesh do not > play well with VisIt. I spent the better part of an afternoon several months > back trying to get VisIt to read the VTK files generated by libMesh without > success, although I probably was making some dumb mistake.
The one current limitation that VisIt seems to have compared to Paraview is ubiquity. When I wanted to play with the latter, I found it in the Fedora repos for home and it was in Ubuntu for them to install at work. There's a lot of people interested in VisIt on Ubuntu, but the thread I read suggested that the only volunteer packager wouldn't be able to work on it for another month. > What does seem to work OK is the ExodusII format, although VisIt's Exodus > reader has some limitations that may keep it from being usable for AMR > applications. VisIt can handle linear elements stored in the Exodus format, > but VisIt does not seem to handle higher order elements at this point. It's > my impression from the visit-users email list that VisIt 2.0 will have > improved support for higher order elements. If our VTK IO isn't as fully compatible as the Exodus IO, though, that certainly counts as a point for the latter. Speaking of higher order elements and available visualization, do any of these viz programs actually support *high* order elements? Quadratics don't count. I remember one of the problems I had with p refinement in libMesh was just getting a good look at the output... --- Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
