Vis5d

Steven G. Johnson

2002-10-04 17:03:05 UTC

Post by Melanie Ayre
I'm currently trying to work my way through the mpb data analysis
tutorial, given in the manual, using Debian Linux as reccommended in the
archives.
I'm finding that the HDF5 utilities package I apt-got doesn't include
h5tov5d, as used in the tutorial, but instead h5tovtk.

h5utils only includes h5tov5d if Vis5d is installed, since it needs a
Vis5d library. Debian doesn't currently include a package for Vis5d, so
the Debian h5utils cannot include h5tov5d.

If you want to use Vis5d, you'll need to install it yourself from source,
and then reinstall h5utils from source.

Post by Melanie Ayre
Having looked at a few websites, I find that Vis5d and VTK are somewhat
different

Completely different.

Post by Melanie Ayre
and that one Steven Johnson is closely associated to Vis5d.

When I first started working on this, Vis5d was the only free volumetric
visualization program that I could find under Linux, but it didn't work
properly so I spent some time porting it. It's a bit of an old and crufty
program, but it seems worth maintaining in a usable state. I find it
fairly fast and convenient for looking at the data, but not as flexible as
I would like.

Since then, additional alternatives have become available. In particular,
there is a VTK program called MayaVi (apt-get install mayavi) that works
reasonably well, although I find it a bit slower than Vis5d and still not
perfect in other ways. MayaVi is more convenient for Debian users, of
course, since it is pre-packaged. (It was primarily in order to use
MayaVi that I wrote h5tovtk.)

Steven

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