Assisted by Charles Gueunet and Helene Grandmontagne, Mathieu Westphal and Michael Migliore recently taught two free webinar sessions that explored ParaView 5.8 new features. These … Read More

Introduction Until VTK 8.2, surface shading through the vtkPolyDataMapper is computed using the Phong reflectance model. While it achieves plausible results, it requires the user … Read More

Context Nowadays, it is quite common to have access to a device capable of displaying 360° scenes like VR headsets, planetarium/dome screens or a simple … Read More

The glTF file format glTF is an API-neutral royalty-free specification for the efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by applications. It is … Read More

CGAL: The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library CGAL is a software project that provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of … Read More

Context There are two common techniques in computer graphics to render surface geometries: Rasterization and Raytracing. By default, ParaView uses the Rasterization technique with OpenGL to … Read More

Context Besides being large, climate simulations are usually comprised of many different variables and quantities that often need to be visualized side by side. The … Read More

Visualization of salient features in volume data is not straightforward. A popular method is to extract and visualize some contours of the data that is … Read More