by owlice » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:15 pm Splotch: Ray Tracer to Visualize SPH Simulations
Abstract: Splotch is a light and fast, publicly available, ray-tracer software tool which supports the effective visualization of cosmological simulations data. The algorithm it relies on is designed to deal with point-like data, optimizing the ray-tracing calculation by ordering the particles as a function of their 'depth', defined as a function of one of the coordinates or other associated parameters. Realistic three-dimensional impressions are reached through a composition of the final colour in each pixel properly calculating emission and absorption of individual volume elements.
Credit: Klaus Dolag, Martin Reinecke, Claudio Gheller, Marzia Rivi, Mel Krokos, Zhefan Jin
Site: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~kdolag/Splotch/
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008NJPh...10l5006D
ID: ascl:1103.005
