Can MayaVi visualize 3D functions in an unstructured grid ?

David M. Cooke cookedm+news at physics.mcmaster.ca
Thu Jan 15 12:17:26 EST 2004


At some point, arian.novruzi at mathstat.uottawa.ca (A. Novruzi) wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I am looking for a free 3D visualization software, running in Linux,
> and able to visualize 3D functions in nonstructured mesh (basically,
> my mesh is a set of thetraheders used for some 3D FE computations).
>
> Can anyone confirm that indeed MayaVi can visualize 3D functions in
> nonstructured mesh? I went through the manuals but I didn't find that
> MayVi can do so.

It should. You'll have to write your function to a file, in VTK data
format, which supports unstructured grid data.
http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/docs/guide/x404.html

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