ParaView is a scientific visualization application designed with the need to visualize large data sets in mind. The goals of the ParaView project are to develop an open source, multi-platform visualization application, support distributed computation models to process large data sets, create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface, and develop an extensible architecture based on open standards. ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been succesfully tested on Windows, Linux, and various Unix workstations and clusters. It uses the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written in Tcl/Tk and C++.
| Tags | Scientific/Engineering Visualization |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows POSIX |
Recent releases


Changes: Numerous additional features and bugfixes were made.


Changes: This release adds parallel uniform rectilinear grid volume rendering (vtkImageData). It introduces new algorithms for parallel unstructured grid volume rendering. Support for hardware accelerated offscreen rendering using OpenGL framebuffers. Improved multi-block support. Improved AMR support. Animation saving with ffmpeg. Filters have been added for FLUENT, OpenFOAM, MFIX, LSDyna, and AcuSolve. A gradient filter for unstructured data. Many other enhancements and bugfixes.


Changes: There are many improvements over release 0.2, including bugfixes, a reworked GUI, and parallel architecture changes.