German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
 
 

PM Viewer

The PM-Viewer was developed to visualize results of simulations with widely used astrophysical N-body codes like Features - list:
  • Real-Time rendering of DM particles.
  • Data support: ART, GADGET, MLAPM
  • Snapshot of scene in PPM format.
  • Flying in 3D space.
  • 2 different method of visualization of particles.(drawing by points or textured quads)
  • DM HALO viewer/reader/massfunction generator are included.
  • Halos can be plotted over particles.
  • Reader support periodical shifting of data to the center of view.
  • Full screen mode(Game mode).
  • Color table saving/loading.
System requirements:
  • Linux/UNIX, 32 or 64 bit
  • OpenGL and GLUT libraries
  • INTEL PIII 400Mhz,
  • graphics adaptor with Direct Draw (better with graphic accelerator)
For more specifics and current code see: PMViewer on SourceForge.
Thanks to Arman Khalatyan from AIP for making this code available.