Scientific visualization with ParaView

Introduction to 3D scientific visualization with ParaView, an open source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization tool designed to run on a variety of hardware from an individual laptop to large supercomputers. With ParaView users can interactively visualize 2D and 3D data sets defined on structured, adaptive and unstructured meshes or particles, animate these datasets in time, and manipulate them with a variety of filters. ParaView supports both interactive (GUI) and scripted (including offscreen) visualization, and is an easy and fun tool to learn.

Date:
Friday May 5, 2023

Time:
9am–5pm (with a two-hour break from noon to 2pm)

Instructor:
Alex Razoumov (Simon Fraser University)

Prerequisites:
This is an introductory course with no prior visualization experience required.

Software:
Please install ParaView on your computer, and make sure you can start it before the course. As of this writing, the latest ParaView version is 5.11 – it should work nicely for our workshop. We will provide all sample data and codes for the exercises. Let us know before or during the course if you want to load your own dataset into ParaView.


  1. Download today’s materials as a single ZIP file with slides (two PDFs), data and scripts inside. Unpack it where you can find it on your computer.

  2. Install recent ParaView on your computer. Make sure it runs, i.e. you have installed the right version for your operating system and processor architecture.