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.
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.
Answer | No. of answers | Link | Remarks |
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Paraview | 25 |
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OVITO | 4 | scientific data visualization and analysis software for atomistic, molecular and other particle-based simulations. | |
Gnuplot - Spyder | 2 | portable command-line driven graphing utility - not exactly a software | |
GranOO viewer | 2 |
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matplotlit | 2 | Python library | |
Pyvista | 2 | 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) | |
XBalls | 2 | will be discontinued | |
Blender | 1 |
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Julia | 1 | a programming language, not a software | |
Mayavi | 1 | 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 | it is a language for numerical computations - allows for visualization | |
OpenG | 1 | API and Extension registries for the OpenGL family APIs | |
POVRAY | 1 |
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Vedo | 1 |
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VMD | 1 | developed for molecular dynamics visualization |