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Welcome to VisIt's main help page. VisIt is a distributed, parallel, visualization tool for visualizing data defined on two- and three-dimensional structured and unstructured meshes. VisIt's distributed architecture allows it to leverage both the compute power of a large parallel computer and the graphics acceleration hardware of a local workstation. Another benefit of the distributed architecture is that VisIt can visualize the data where it is generated, eliminating the need to move the data. VisIt can be controlled by a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or through the Python or Java programming languages.

Database Features:

• 2D and 3D database support
• Silo database support
• Exodus database support
• VTK database support
• Alias Wavefront Obj database support

Plotting Features:

• Contour (with optional transparency)
• Curve
• Mesh
• Pseudocolor (with optional transparency)
• Streamlines
• Subset (with optional transparency)
• Surface
• Vector
• Volume-rendering (software and hardware)

Operators:

• Box clip
• Cone slice
• Index select
• Isosurface
• Onion peel
• Planar slice
• Sphere slice
• Threshold
• Transform