Hi all, my question is about suitability of ParaView for visualization of neural network models. I saw the gallery, looked at the supported file formats, available tools and filters, and looked over the user guide (1.7). My impression is that ParaView is typically used for visualization of data that is layed out in a grid, say 3D matrices, especially particles, however I noticed there is the possibility to interactively create 3D objects and output them to povray and I I saw that ITK R4 at one point had support for neural network visualization (http://www.paraview .org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Discussion_Points#Neural_Networks). Our aim is to visualize a network model consisting of neurons and connections between neurons and show time dynamics of evolving attractors, etc. The visualization should basically colorcode neurons and synapses, possibly in 3D and possibly raytraced. We run our simulations in parallel and would like to use a binary format like hdf5 or netcdf to store data of neural activations and connection strengths. These should then be used to create a 3D representations (images and videos). I think Povray (+ pevious binary2text conversion) could be simply setup to do network visualization for our purpose. Can this visualization be done in ParaView? (If yes, how?) thanks, Benjamin.
---- Benjamin Auffarth KTH, Computational Biology and Neurocomputing (CBN), Albanova Universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 35, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden room 162:021B, tel. +46 8 790 8699
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