ChomboVis http://seesar.lbl.gov/anag/chombo/chomboVis/UsersGuide.html
We wrote ChomboVis so that users could view the 2D and 3D data sets generated by tools in the Chombo library. Visualizing Chombo output was a challenge because none of the available visualization tools directly supported hierarchical collections of grids.
ChomboVis is built on top of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and HDF5, and consists of source code in C++ and Python. Chombo produces HDF5 files. ChomboVis reads those files and uses VTK for visualization. ChomboVis provides a variety of methods for visualizing the data sets including color mapping, grid display, slicing, isosurfaces/contours and streamlines. ChomboVis users can browse the data directly as numbers, selecting grids by several possible means. And while the familiar face of ChomboVis is its interactive graphical user interface, Python programmers can now automate ChomboVis through a documented application programming interface (API).
In this guide we intend to be honest about the good points, the bad points, and the limitations of ChomboVis. We have overcome some but not all of the difficulties connected to the visualization of hierarchical collections of grids. ChomboVis accesses and visualizes individual grids separately, and the resulting geometry is collected and rendered in one image. This means that the data set isn't visualized in a completely integrated manner. This method has been workable but we still look forward to writing VTK extensions that would directly handle collections of grids. Another limitation, for now, is that only levels and individual grids can be selected and examined but other collections of grids cannot be selected.
