NHSE Software Catalog

TIPSY - Theoretical Image Processing System

url

ftp://ftp-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/pub/hpcc/tipsy.tar.gz

lifn

lifn:nhse:f4e6c98ff73688943ca275550738eb21

review_level

Partially reviewed

contact

hpccsoft@astro.washington.edu

abstract

The developement of TIPSY was motivated by the need to quickly
display and analyze the results of cosmological N-body simulations. Most data
visualization packages are designed for the display of gridded data,
and hence are unsuitable for use with particle data. Therefore, a
special package was built that could easily perform the following
functions:
- Display particle positions (as points), and velocities (as line
segments) from an arbitrary viewpoint.
- Zoom in to a chosen position.
- Color particles to display scalar fields.
- Select a subset of the particles for display and
analysis.
- Follow selected particles from one timestep to another.
- Find cumulative properties of a collection of particles.

keywords

particle data visualization; cosmology; N-body problems

description

http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/tools/