6. Visualization

This section describes the most frequently used SCIRun module, the Viewer, which displays interactive graphical output to the computer screen. The Viewer is used any time the user wants to see a geometry or spatial data. The Viewer also provides access to many simulation parameters and controls, and indirectly initiates new iterations of simulation steps, which is important for computational steering (see Computational Steering). Multiple Viewer windows can be created. Each viewer window is independent of the others.

This section begins with an overview of the Viewer window and its controls, then describes the options and variations.