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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 multiple 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 on line 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.