ASC / Alliances Center
for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes

Visit is a free interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data on Unix and PC platforms. It was developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative (ASCI) to visualize and analyze the results of terascale simulations. It is supported by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Visit has a data file format specifically for reading in Flash2 and Flash3 datasets; start visit with the command line
prompt> visit -default_format FLASH
A plugin for Visit is available to enable compatibility with the dataset format used as of the Flash3 release.

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Graphics-display panel from FlashView