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Post-processing

Finally, to visualise the results of the simulation, the magnetisation vector datasets are transformed from either the OOMMF format or the magpar format to the Visualisation Toolkit (VTK) format, an open standard for visualisation. These results are visualised with MayaVi, a piece of data visualisation software initially developed to assist with the visualisation of computational fluid dynamics environments. MayaVi depends on VTK.

All of these applications should run in any operating system environment for which an ANSI-compliant C/C++ compiler is available, however in this project we have only made extensive use of GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows machines running on either Intel or AMD processors.

We have written many other smaller tools to assist with pre- and post-processing of data files generated by all of the aforementioned applications.



Richard Boardman 2006-11-28