VisIt
VisIt is a parallel visualization software package. It is useful for rendering 3D images.
See Visualization for details on running Visit on netcdf files of SPINS outputs.
See VisIt Tutorial for a short tutorial.
See also ParaView.
VisIt on Macs
If you want to run VisIt on a remote machine and display it on your Mac, there are two ways to do it.
1. client/server
Run VisIt in server mode on the remote machine and in client mode on your Mac. [Anybody have details?]
2. on remote server with X11
Run VisIt entirely on the remote machine as an X11 application that displays on your Mac's screen.
- Start XQuartz, the Mac X11 application. It automatically starts an xterm window.
- In the xterm window. ssh to the remote machine with X11 tunnelling enabled:
mymac% ssh -X userid@remotehost.uwaterloo.ca
- Run VisIt on the remote host.
remotehost% visit
Note: The version of XQuartz matters.
- 2.7.8 just works
- 2.7.10 (and higher) needs a feature enabled before starting XQuartz
- start the Terminal activity
- run this command (its effects are persistent across logout/login)
% defaults write org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 enable_iglx -bool true