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Manual chapters

This manual is broken down into the following chapters:

Chapter title

Chapter description

Introduction

This chapter.

Working with files

Describes how to select and open files for visualization.

Plots

Describes the concept of a plot and how to create them as well as detailed information about all VisIt plots.

Operators

Describes the concept of an operator and how to create them as well as information on all VisIt operators.

Saving and Printing

Describes how to save and print images.

Visualization windows

Describes how to interact with VisIt's visualization windows.

Subsetting

Describes the concept of a subset and tells how to create subsets.

Quantitative Analysis

Describes how to extract quantitative data from visualizations. This includes pick and reference lines.

Making it Pretty

Describes how to improve the presentation quality of visualizations using colors, annotations, lighting and view.

Animation and Keyframing

Describes how to view time varying databases as animations.

Interactive Tools

Describes how to interactively slice plots using VisIt's interactive tools.

Multiple Databases and Windows

Describes how to use database correlations and how to visualize databases using mulitple visualization windows.

Remote Visualization

Describes how to run VisIt's compute engine on remote computers.

Preferences

Describes how to set GUI look and feel preferences.

Help

Describes how to use VisIt's online help.

Appendix A

Describes VisIt's command line options.

Appendix B

Describes how to set up password-less ssh.

Appendix C

Describes how to install VisIt.