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Open-source visualisation tools

Open-source visualisation tools

As part of our Subgroup 3-2 – going through a common visualisation and post-process tool(s), one of the deliverables is D2.1 Inventorying open-source high performance visualisation tools capable to receive specific developments through plugin mechanism (September 2024)

A survey was sent to all the action members on September 16th, collecting information about open-source visualisation tools used by our members.

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By the time of writing this report, 40 responses have been received. Below is a briefing of the response:

For the first question, 27.5% have responded that they do not use and have not used any open-source software for visualising DEM results.

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Answer

No. of answers

Link

Remarks

Answer

No. of answers

Link

Remarks

Paraview

25

https://www.paraview.org/

 

OVITO

4

https://www.ovito.org/

scientific data visualization and analysis software for atomistic, molecular and other particle-based simulations.

Gnuplot - Spyder

2

http://www.gnuplot.info

portable command-line driven graphing utility - not exactly a software

GranOO viewer

2

https://www.granoo.org/

 

matplotlit

2

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib

Python library

Pyvista

2

https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista

3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

XBalls

2

http://docs.mercurydpm.org/Trunk/dd/da6/xballs.html

will be discontinued

Blender

1

https://www.blender.org/

 

Julia

1

https://discourse.julialang.org/about

a programming language, not a software

Mayavi

1

https://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/index.html

can be used as a library or stand alone app - uses Python

NDDEM

1

https://franzzzzzzzz.github.io/NDDEM/visualise/docs/index.html

this is a DEM solver with a visualization tool - not sure you can use just the visualization part

Octave

1

https://octave.org/

it is a language for numerical computations - allows for visualization

OpenG

1

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry

API and Extension registries for the OpenGL family APIs

POVRAY

1

http://www.povray.org/

 

Vedo

1

https://vedo.embl.es/

 

VMD

1

https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/

developed for molecular dynamics visualization

 

 

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