Vapor 3 A modern 3D visualization suite for Geophysical Sciences

Scott Pearse

doi:10.1145/3332186.3341299

Vapor 3 A modern 3D visualization suite for Geophysical Sciences

Scott Pearse

Visualization and Analysis Software Team

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Abstract

Vapor v3.1 is an open-source, cross platform visualization and analysis tool for finite element simulations in the physical sciences. Vapor offers users a set of tools called Renderers that let them depict their simulation data in different ways. With this most recent release, Vapor has undergone a significant refactorization of its code base which has spanned a 15 year history. Much of Vapor’s old code has been discarded and rewritten to improve its ease of use, maintainability, and rendering quality. These improvements aim to help scientists easily demonstrate their simulations in a way that results in superior communication of their research. The video pertaining to this submission will demonstrate how Vapor is used, new features in the current version, and how things have changed since the previous major release, Vapor 2.6.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
Subtitle of host publication	Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450372275
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3341299
State	Published - Jul 28 2019
Event	2019 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019 - Chicago, United States Duration: Jul 28 2019 → Aug 1 2019

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	2019 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	07/28/19 → 08/1/19

Keywords

Geophysics
MPAS
NetCDF
Open Source
Visualization
WRF

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Pearse, S 2019, Vapor 3 A modern 3D visualization suite for Geophysical Sciences. in Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019., 3341299, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019, Chicago, United States, 07/28/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3341299

Vapor 3 A modern 3D visualization suite for Geophysical Sciences. / Pearse, Scott.
Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Rise of the Machines (Learning), PEARC 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 3341299 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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