Meeting Update 08/25/2014: I made a shape!

So in an attempt to visualize the pn data that Baowei set aside for me in SHAPE, I need to learn the ropes of the software first. So that is what I've been up to. The SHAPE guys have a youtube channel, so I am going through all their videos, copying what they do on my own computer with the software (see: SHAPE 3D Interactive Astrophysics)

So I made a torus. Understand the 3D view ports in SHAPE now, it is pretty intuitive when you know where things are located. Turns out you can also add observational photos to the background, which might be useful as a reference when you're creating detailed objects. In the SHAPE tutorials, they have a Jet Template Project in their Hydrodynamics module. My short term goal is to recreate that, and perhaps a few other templates until I can convert the data we have (see: SHAPE Templates).

Another issue is converting hdf5 to ascii, which Martin informed me is the necessary format to feed into SHAPE. Baowei has a script (see: Baowei's Page) where one first needs to rewrite each chombo with a single core, and then conver to ascii.

For fun I threw the chombo files into VisIt to see what they looked like:

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Both sets have the same max and min.

Going forward:

  • Attempting to become a shape aficionado, try to visualize the data we have in SHAPE… and understand it. Dig on some literature about p/pns.
  • Working on doing the post processing for Erica's runs. They should all be complete now.
  • Once I'm done making some of the typical movies of the colliding flows bovs, I'll work on doing the movie fly-throughs. Martin said he needed some pretty graphics, so I am going to try to get as much of this done as I can soon. Also for the VISTA contest in September 5th.

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