3.2. Standard Plot Types

VisIt comes with eighteen standard plots: Boundary, Contour, Curve, FilledBoundary, Histogram, Label, Mesh, Molecule, MultiCurve, ParallelCoordinates, Pseudocolor, Scatter, Spreadsheet, Subset, Tensor, Truecolor, Vector, and Volume. This section explains each plot in detail.

• 3.2.1. Common Controls
  • 3.2.1.1. Plot buttons
  • 3.2.1.2. Plot colors
  • 3.2.1.3. Point type and size
  • 3.2.1.4. Lighting
• 3.2.2. Boundary and FilledBoundary Plots
  • 3.2.2.1. Changing colors
  • 3.2.2.2. Opacity
  • 3.2.2.3. Wireframe mode
  • 3.2.2.4. Geometry smoothing
  • 3.2.2.5. Drawing only clean zones
  • 3.2.2.6. Setting point properties
• 3.2.3. Contour Plot
  • 3.2.3.1. Setting the number of contours
  • 3.2.3.2. Setting Limits
  • 3.2.3.3. Scaling
  • 3.2.3.4. Setting contour colors
  • 3.2.3.5. Wireframe view
• 3.2.4. Curve Plot
  • 3.2.4.1. Setting curve color
  • 3.2.4.2. Showing curve labels
  • 3.2.4.3. Space-filled curves
  • 3.2.4.4. Setting line style and line width
  • 3.2.4.5. Drawing points on the Curve plot
  • 3.2.4.6. Adding Time Cues
  • 3.2.4.7. Polar coordinate system conversion
• 3.2.5. Histogram Plot
  • 3.2.5.1. Setting the histogram data range
  • 3.2.5.2. Setting the type of graph
  • 3.2.5.3. Setting the number of bins
  • 3.2.5.4. Setting the histogram calculation method
  • 3.2.5.5. Data scaling
  • 3.2.5.6. Statistical Options
• 3.2.6. Label Plot
  • 3.2.6.1. Choosing the Label plot’s variable
  • 3.2.6.2. Showing node and zone numbers
  • 3.2.6.3. Restricting the number of labels
  • 3.2.6.4. Depth testing for 3D Label plots
  • 3.2.6.5. Formatting labels
  • 3.2.6.6. Labeling subset names and material names
• 3.2.7. Mesh Plot
  • 3.2.7.1. Mesh plot opaque modes
  • 3.2.7.2. Showing internal zones
  • 3.2.7.3. Changing colors
  • 3.2.7.4. Changing mesh line attributes
  • 3.2.7.5. Changing point type and size
  • 3.2.7.6. Geometry smoothing
• 3.2.8. Molecule Plot
  • 3.2.8.1. Controlling how atoms are drawn
  • 3.2.8.2. Controlling how bonds are drawn
  • 3.2.8.3. Controlling colors
  • 3.2.8.4. Examples in use
• 3.2.9. Pseudocolor plot
  • 3.2.9.1. Data tab options
  • 3.2.9.2. Geometry tab options
• 3.2.10. Scatter Plot
  • 3.2.10.1. Scatter plot wizard
  • 3.2.10.2. Selecting a variable
  • 3.2.10.3. Setting an input variable’s role
  • 3.2.10.4. Setting the minimum and maximum values
  • 3.2.10.5. Scaling an input variable
  • 3.2.10.6. Setting the colors
  • 3.2.10.7. Setting point properties
• 3.2.11. Subset Plot
  • 3.2.11.1. Changing colors
  • 3.2.11.2. Opacity
  • 3.2.11.3. Setting point properties
  • 3.2.11.4. Wireframe mode
  • 3.2.11.5. Drawing internal surfaces
  • 3.2.11.6. Geometry smoothing
• 3.2.12. Tensor plot
  • 3.2.12.1. Changing the tensor colors
  • 3.2.12.2. Setting the tensor scale
  • 3.2.12.3. Setting the number of tensors
• 3.2.13. Truecolor plot
• 3.2.14. Vector plot
  • 3.2.14.1. Setting vector color
  • 3.2.14.2. Vector scaling
  • 3.2.14.3. Heads on the vector glyph
  • 3.2.14.4. Tails on the vector glyph
  • 3.2.14.5. Setting the number of vectors
• 3.2.15. Volume plot
  • 3.2.15.1. Rendering Options
  • 3.2.15.2. Transfer Function
  • 3.2.15.3. Setting opacities
  • 3.2.15.4. Changing the opacity variable
  • 3.2.15.5. Controlling image quality