That makes sense - is " the modern way" to get the data into an environment with robust visualization, as fast as possible? For small things, personally I am a fan of dumping PETSc binaries and opening them in MATLAB (doesn't require any special configuration on the library anymore, as far as I can tell), and I think that also works with python. That also works well dumping to VTK. This is a topic which might be very welcome for beginners in the tutorials, as there is often an expectation of being able to scope things.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Patrick Sanan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I'm working on some groundwork to improve the PETSc documentation, and >> the next thing I'd like to look at is the User's Manual, adding >> slightly-prettier code listings (as in the update to the dev manual). >> >> Before doing that, however, it would be very helpful to know if there >> are any sections of the manual which are known, by the relevant >> experts here, to require deletion or heavy rewrites; it would of >> course be a waste of time to format these. >> >> Specifically, I'm wondering about the following sections, which have >> in common that they are things concerned with friendly external tools. >> I've seen new users get very frustrated when they expect these sorts >> of things to "just work," so it's probably constructive to remove any >> outdated information here: >> >> - Chapter 11: Using MATLAB with PETSc . The support here has changed >> quite a lot, so I'm not sure what currently works. Is the MATLAB >> Compute Engine still supported? >> >> - Sections 15.10-15.14: Eclipse/Qt Creator/Developers Studio/XCode >> users. This is likely not all current. Is this information helpful >> here? >> >> - Section 15.15 : Graphics. I saw that there were some updates to the >> drawing tools recently by Lisandro, so if any of this material is >> known to be out of date, that would be helpful to know. > > > I think graphics is not so much out of date now as incomplete. We really > want > to be telling people to do things the modern way, but the old ways still > work. > > Matt > > -- > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments > is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments > lead. > -- Norbert Wiener
