Abstract
This paper presents splash, a publicly available interactive visualisation tool for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. Visualisation of SPH data is more complicated than for grid-based codes because the data are defined on a set of irregular points and therefore requires a mapping procedure to a two dimensional pixel array. This means that, in practise, many authors simply produce particle plots which offer a rather crude representation of the simulation output. Here we describe the techniques and algorithms which are utilised in splash in order to provide the user with a fast, interactive and meaningful visualisation of one, two and three dimensional SPH results.
Keywords:Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 24(3) 159–173 doi:10.1071/AS07022
Submitted: 19 June 2007 Accepted: 31 August 2007 Published: 25 October 2007





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