On 5 July 2011 12:53, Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov> wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with Blaise's assessment of ParaView. It is good for quick and > dirty visualization, but its scripting interface is very limited. > > MayaVi provides a GUI along with high-level API access to VTK data > structures through Python. One can update/modify the data values through > the API without ever writing VTK compatible files. I read my data from > HDF5 files using PyTables and create VTK data objects using the API. A > similar mechanism could be used for data stored using SQLite. I think > some Linux and Mac packaging systems include MayaVi; I usually build > from source. >
I recently added support (requires petsc4py, of course) for -ksp|snes|ts_monitor_python filename.py:function|class. Perhaps you can find this useful for "live" monitoring of simulations. -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colectora RN 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1011) Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169
