IsoView Documentation

Ian Wesley-Smith

About

Version: 2.0 RC 1
Original code base and guidance from John Shalf. 
Current development and maintence by Ian Wesley-Smith. 

IsoView version 2 was developed to replace IsoView 
version 1, which was heavily dependent on VTK. IsoView 
version 2 uses pure OpenGL to handle rendering, making 
it very lite-weight. IsoView V2 is a visualization 
client originally developed for the CactusCode project 
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and now is 
maintained and developed at Louisiana State University.

See COPYRIGHT for copyright information

Installation

1. Get the IsoView source (either from CVS or tar balls)

2. Untar the package and enter the IsoView directory

  * tar xfz IsoView.tar.gzs

3. Alter the make file, changing the second line to 
  match your TCPXX installation

  * TCPXX = /home/bob/TCPXX

4. If you did NOT install fltk to its normal place, or 
  it is not in your path, you will need to edit the 
  makefile some more

5. At this point, if everything is setup correctly, and 
  the code gods smile, then all you should need to do 
  is 'make'

6. You may see some errors regarding deprecated 
  functions, ignore these

7. You should have a nice, shiny new IsoView binary 
  waiting for you in the build directory. Start IsoView 
  and enjoy :-)

Tested Platforms

* Linux

  * Slackware 10.0 - 2.6.10 on an i686 using MESA

* Macintosh

  * OS 10.3 - 7.6.0 on a PowerBook G4

Known Issues

* You may see some warnings about using deprecated 
  functions during compile. These are related to TCPXX, 
  and I have no control over them.

* When steering, some IsoValues result in very strange 
  results. I believe this is a bug with IsoSurfacer or 
  the simulation, not IsoView.

Bugs

Please e-mail any bug reports to:
iwsmith<at>cct<dot>lsu<dot>edu