Questions relating to graphing and displaying numerical data
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How to generate sloped streamslice plot of magnetic field in Matlab
I am currently working on my bachelor thesis, where I am calculating trajectory of electrons and ions in Hall Effect Ion Thruster. However, to be sure what I am calculating, I need to know how does ...
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Create 2D plot from two data sets in ParaView
I'm currently running a CFD simulation for an internal flow and need to compare my computed results to experimental data. The experimental data is saved as a comma separated file with columns for ...
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how to visualize lattice with periodic, helical, etc. boundary conditions?
I am trying to write a special hexagonal lattice generator, with several kinds of boundary conditions, such as helical BC, periodic BC, and I find it hard to verify whether it works correctly. I tried ...
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Magnetic field visualization on Mac OS X?
Does somebody know about any tool for simulation and visualization of magnetic fields either of permanent magnets or solenoids, that can be used on Mac OS X? Maybe there is some software for Linux, ...
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Offline (visualisation) rendering in scientific computing
I need to simulate the movement of a large number of agents. The processes that govern the agents' movement are complex and so the entire process requires parallelisation. The output from this ...
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Visualizing very large link graphs
I am looking for a tool to visualize very large directional link graphs.
I currently have ~2million nodes with ~10million edges. I have tried a few different things, but most take hours to even do ...
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Ways of visualizing event data in search of performance issues
I'm trying to optimize an MPI application with a highly asynchronous communication pattern. Each rank has a list of things to compute, and sends messages as necessary if the inputs or outputs reside ...
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Visualizing discontinuous Galerkin/finite element data
I would like to visualize simulation results, obtained using the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approach, within ParaView. Similarly to finite volume methods, the problem domain is divided into ...
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Existing software/scripts for spiral graphs?
I am looking for existing software or scripts to generate spiral graphs from cyclical (time) data, as presented by Webber and Muller. The graphs shown in the paper look like a great means of ...
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Algorithms for (adaptive?) function plotting
I am looking for algorithms to draw standard 2d-graphs for functions that may or may not have singularities. The purpose is to write a "Mini-CAS", so I have no a priori knowledge of the types of ...
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Making a Molecular editor/visualizer: Object oriented programming, data structures, and molecules
I am new to programming and I am trying to solve my first big problem and write my first big program. I have looked for open source examples of code to learn from, but so far have only found code in ...
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Drawing isocontour data of 3d discrete volume with mayavi2
I'm trying to visualize the propagation of heat in a discrete sphere surface. The sphere is hollow, only the voxels of the boundary have value.
Visualization in matlab using isosurface shows correct ...
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How do I plot a transparent cylinder in matlab?
I know that I can use the following commands to create an opaque cylinder in matlab:
N=100;
[X,Y,Z]=cylinder(R,N);
surf(X,Y,Z);
I want to plot an arrow inside ...
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How can one mathematically describe the “cartoon” type of representation of proteins?
Proteins are typically represented in a cartoon form, with β sheets as arrows and α helices as coils:
I'm wondering, is there somewhere a reference that describes the construction of this ...
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Tools/solutions for visualization of molecular simulation trajectories?
I have so far been using VMD to create visualizations of molecular trajectories. However, I find myself not entirely satisfied with the quality of the resulting animations—when you want to do ...
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How do I create an animation from a 2D model or dataset?
I found the following thread in the physics stackexchange where I saw the video called output attached to the main post. The video can be found here.
How would I go about creating such an animation?
