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Versions Rocketeer Suite version 1.3.6 includes support for ghost elements in unstructured meshes, meshes with mixed element types, and automatically computes mesh quality measures. It can read CGNS format files in addition to HDF4. Binaries are available for:

Linux
AIX
MS Windows
Solaris
Mac OS X 10.3
To use Rocketeer on turing, simply add "source ~rfiedler/.cshrc.rocketeer" to your .cshrc file to set your PATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variables.

The User's Guide for version 1.3.6 is available at Rocketeer Suite version 1.3 This tutorial describes the interactive serial version of Rocketeer, the paralel batch mode version (Voyager), and the new client/parallel server implementation (Apollo/Houston)

Rocketeer Voyager MPI parallel batch mode version of Rocketeer

Description

Rocketeer is a powerful tool for visualizing 3 dimensional scientific data sets. It was developed by John Norris and Robert Fiedler at CSAR to analyze numerical results from rocket simulations, but it can be used for viewing many types of 3-D data.

Rocketeer is written in C++ and uses the Visualization Toolkit, which is based on OpenGL for accelerated graphics.

Rocketeer differs from many visualization tools in its ability to handle many different types of grids on which the data is defined. The grid may be non-uniform, structured, or unstructured, and multiblock. Rocketeer can display data from multiple files and/or multiple data sets from the same file on a single image. Rocketeer can perform the same graphics operations on a series of data sets automatically to produce frames for animation.

Rocketeer can show a grid on the surface of the computational domain, and/or it can indicate the value of a scalar variable on that surface using a color scale. It can also display scalar variables as multiple isosurfaces and/or on slices across the x, y, or z axes. The surface, grid, isosurfaces, and slices can be semitransparent and can be cut away to allow a clearer view of the interior of a 3-D volume.

Rocketeer reads data stored in NCSA's HDF format (version 4). Attributes stored with the data help Rocketeer interpret the contents of the file without additional user input.