QuickView is an open-source, interactive visualization
tool designed to help Earth system modelers take a quick look at
a collection of physical quantities in their simulation files.
The physical quantities are presented in the form of contour plots on global or regional maps.
Currently, QuickView supports cubed-sphere grids
consisting of either Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre (GLL) nodes (i.e., the ne*np4 grids)
or finite-volume grid cells (ne*pg2, ne*pg3, etc.).
Under the hood, ParaView and VTK supply the data-processing and graphics capabilities, while trame, a Python package, is used to build a browser-based graphical User Interface (UI) to provide intuitive and task-focused controls of the visualization so that users do not need to operate ParaView or VTK themselves.
- Intuitive, minimalist interface tailored for Earth system modeling.
- Multi-variable visualization.
- Persistent sessions—pick up where you left off.
- Currently supporting cubed-sphere grids in a variety of configurations. Examples can be found in the visualization gallery.
QuickView supports local installation through desktop bundles or conda, as well as remote usage. See the system requirements and installation instructions.
QuickView's runtime dependencies are listed under requirements.run in the
conda-forge feedstock recipe.
See documentation page.
QuickView is developed by Kitware, Inc. in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's ASCR and BER programs via SciDAC. The development of QuickView used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy User Facility.
- Lead Developer: Abhishek Yenpure (now at NVIDIA) for version 1; Sebastien Jourdain (Kitware, Inc.) from version 2 onwards.
- Key Contributors: Berk Geveci, Patrick O'Leary, Dan Lipsa, Will Dunklin (Kitware, Inc.); Hui Wan, Kai Zhang (PNNL)
Apache Software License - see LICENSE file for details.
Semantic release rely on conventional commits to generate new releases and changelog.