Paraview Glance

Sharing three-dimensional visualization with my colleagues is often reduced to sending pictures from different angles. This can be frustrating because receiving feedback from them is limited since they are literally not getting the whole picture. Not to mention that being able to manipulate the camera at your will substantially increases the coolness factor.

Luckily, the folks at Kitware have created Paraview Glance. Now you can wrap your visualizations in Paraview into a single html file and share them easily with your teammates. On their end, they will need nothing else than a modern web browser. Generating this html file is very simple. The instructions are here, but basically, one just clicks on File > Export scene and select the *.vtkjs format. You can also point Paraview to the Paraview Glance HTML file (right click and Save here ) used to generate the HTML by toggling the advanced options. Otherwise, only the vtkjs file is generated. I have had issues generating the html files when working through the Paraview server. In that case, I have just generated the vtkjs file, download it into my own computer and then generate the html with the vtkjs_helper.py in the Paraview folder. Instructions on how to use it are here.

I generated the following Paraview scene of a heat exchanger designed with topology optimization. Click on the picture to launch the visualizer.