Instructor: Vetria Byrd
Purdue University
vetria.byrd@gmail.com

This talk will provide an introduction to scientific visualization featuring ParaView.

Dr. Vetria Byrd is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology in the Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Byrd is the founder and organizer of the biennial Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz) Workshop co-funded by The Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research/Coalition to Diversify Computing (CRA-W/CDC) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Byrd has given numerous invited talks and workshops on visualization including: XSEDE14 plenary address (featured in HPC Wire online magazine), and an invited presentation at The Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Byrd works with XSEDE to provide on campus training on scientific visualization. She was the Principal Investigator for the highly competitive NSF VisREU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Collaborative Data Visualization Applications for 2014/2015 at Clemson University. Dr. Byrd continues to mentor VisREU research fellows as well as students at Purdue University. Dr. Byrd received her graduate and undergraduate degrees at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in Birmingham, Alabama which include: Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences, Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science . Dr. Byrd’s research interests include: data visualization, high performance visualization, big data, uncertainty visualization, collaborative visualization, broadening participation and inclusion.

Presentation

Post Session Q& A 

Q: Do you have some details on how to write paraview readers? I've been trying to do that on OSX, but unfortunately one can only build Paraview on Linux.

A: Take a look at the following link on Writing ParaView Readers from the ParaView Wiki.

 https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Writing_ParaView_Readers

Take a look at this link for building VTK on MacOSX

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Building/MacOSX




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