Viper

From The FEniCS project

Viper is a minimalistic scientific plotter and run-time visualization module. Viper has support for visualizing meshes and solutions in DOLFIN:

Examples

 from dolfin import *

 # Plot a mesh
 mesh = UnitCube(16, 16, 16)
 plot(mesh)

 # Plot a scalar function
 u = Function("poisson.xml")
 plot(u)

 # Plot a vector function as a displacement field
 d = Function("elasticity.xml")
 plot(d, mode="displacement")

 # Save as png
 p = plot(mesh)
 p.write_png("mesh.png")
 
 # Save as VTK
 p = plot(u)
 p.write_vtk("poisson.vtk")

Features

• Light-weight and minimalistic
• Extended keybindings
• Interactive
• Save as png, VTK
• 2D and 3D
• Scalar, vector, and displacement fields
• Multiple input formats
• In PyCC mode; direct plotting of numpy arrays over DOLFIN meshes
• Can be used as standalone plotting application, or used as part of PyDOLFIN

Main Author

Ola Skavhaug

License

Viper is licensed under the GNU LGPL.

Dependencies and requirements

Viper depends on VTK with Python support.