Immersive 4D Interactive Visualization of Large Scale Simulations

To your left and right you see a typical view of partiview. The top two rows contain some buttons and sliders, below that is a scrolling log window in which you will see your results. The (grey) one line window below that is your command input window. The TAB key will always bring focus back to the command window. The bottom window is your (flat) view into the universe. You will recognize Orion and Sirius (the star with the RGBWWW cross) as well as our sun (the one with just the RGB axes). This picture was taking from a viewpoint slightly "behind" the sun. The "jump" command will show that. The view to the right is a more recent version of partiview where we added time animation control. A page with example movies shows the kind of animations you can also make with partiview.

Our Links:

• partiview. Manual, available in HTML, Postscript, PDF, text, and SGML; should be dated 25-jun-2002 or later. (see also the LDP Author Guide for tools how to write proper SGML. You can also download a old snapshot of the source code, as it stands now. Version 0.5 released 19-mar-2001. For serious work you probably should get our CVS release (we do have a read-only CVS guest account).
  You probably need to install some support packages for: e.g. for rh73
  • Mesa-3.2-2.i686.rpm, (rh9 includes this)
  • Mesa-devel-3.2-2.i686.rpm, and (rh9 included this)
  • fltk-1.0.9.tar.gz. (this one still works for RH9 if you "make clean; make; make install")
    fltk 1.1.4 also works, but 1.0.11 does not. (see also http://www.fltk.org/)
  See manual for details on how to install them.
• The SpaceTec SpaceOrb 360 which we once planned to use with partiview, but never did.
• Our good old NEMO and STARLAB packages to make simulations.
• Some new ideas on future development (May 2002): Kira group, AMNH group
• Here is the manybodybootstrap.csh C-shell script that installs, via CVS, all software modules of the manbody.org software.
• We have sent an abstract for the 2000 Boston ADASS conference, Nov 12-15. The final poster is online here too, as well as the final version of the proceedings. (or check the local version, or the astro-ph/0101334 one)
• AAS #199 poster (Jan 7 2002, Washington DC)
• autobook
• An Intro to CVS for BIMA (and for ManyBody.Org users too) and also notably TkCVS
• cvschroot allows you to edit your CVS/Root entries recursively. Also need cvsu. You will probably need it when the CVS archive is transplanted.
• Also useful for CVS is a graphical diff, like tkdiff
• Some NVO links
• partiview @ AMNH (yes, this is the same version as our version)
• partiview @ NCSA (new as of Dec 2004)
• Flypaths in Partiview

Other Links:

• AstroGRAPE, the new GRAPE web page.
• manybody.org, our new web site.
• AstroMD analysis and vizualization package. ( and their ADASS-2000 poster).
• VirDir, PartiView's big brother.
• IAU 208 (July 10-13, 2001, Tokyo, Japan)
• Other 3D Viewers: Geomview, StarPlot, SpaceChart, 3-D StarMaps, Starmap, Celestia, galsim, glnemo
• 3D tools: StarSplatter