IViPP User Manual

Justin Hagstrom and Doug Baldwin

Department of Computer Science
SUNY Geneseo

July 16, 2007
Updated June 8, 2012

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Introduction to IViPP
    2. Text Input in IViPP
    3. Acknowledgements
  2. Loading Particle and Geometry Data
    1. Types of File Formats IViPP Can Read
    2. Loading Data from Files
  3. Viewing Particle and Geometry Data
    1. Particles
      1. Normal (Point) Mode
      2. Density (Voxel) Mode
    2. Targets and Geometry
    3. Saving Screen Images
    4. Background Color
  4. Visual Interaction with Data
    1. Moving the Display Around
      1. Rotate
      2. Translate
      3. Zoom
      4. Reset the View
    2. Clipping Planes
    3. The Origin and Scale of IViPP’s Coordinate System
      1. Setting the “Infinite” Value
      2. Positioning IViPP’s Origin
  5. Selectors
    1. Basic Concepts
      1. Creating Selectors
      2. Selecting Particles
      3. Displaying Selected Particles
      4. Saving and Loading Selectors
      5. Editing Selectors
    2. Volume Selectors
      1. Sphere
      2. Cone
      3. Disk
    3. Energy Selectors
  6. Histograms from Particle Data
  7. Writing Particle Data to a File