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Self-directed Tutorial
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**Self-directed Tutorial** provides an introduction to the |ParaView| software and its history,
and exercises on how to use |ParaView| that cover basic usage, batch python scripting and visualizing large models.
This **tutorial** was created by Kenneth Moreland at Sandia National Laboratories. It has written lessons and background
and can be followed independently.

Thanks to Amy Squillacote, David DeMarle, and W. Alan Scott for
contributing material to this tutorial. And, of course, thanks to everyone
at Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
and all other contributing organizations for their hard work in making
|ParaView| what it is today.

This work was supported by the Director, Office of Advanced Scientific
Computing Research, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy
under Contract No. 12-015215, through the Scientific Discovery through
Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institute of Scalable Data Management,
Analysis and Visualization.

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or
send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering
Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of
Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525.

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   introduction
   basicUsage
   batchPythonScripting
   visualizingLargeModels
   furtherReading
