Indeed. Far too many possibilities, with Matlab alone there is
* binary view
* matlab binary viewer
* ascii viewer
* matlab engine
* socket viewer to matlab
> On Jul 25, 2019, at 1:32 AM, Patrick Sanan via petsc-dev
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This came up in the beginner's working group meeting. We all seemed to agree
> that a very powerful thing for beginners is to be able to run a set of
> well-defined instructions to go from 0 to being able to solve and visualize a
> simple problem (I'm imagining a PDE on a 2D spatial domain).
>
> PETSc itself isn't a visualization library, obviously, so there are many ways
> to visualize data but most involve some external tools. We'd be interested in
> opinions on what we should recommend to beginners, for example one or more of:
> - Dump binary, load into MATLAB/Octave/Python+numpy+matplotlib
> - Dump something which Paraview and/or VisIt can open
> - Use PETSc's native drawing (X window) capabilities
> - Include custom script for the tutorials, say which requires libpng and
> produces an image
> - ASCII art
>
