SICONOS_VVIEW(1)

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version 4.4.0 · 2 versions
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💖 SICONOS_VVIEW 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for siconos_vview, from the User Commands section of the SICONOS_VVIEW(1) manual. It's a Viewer for Siconos mechanics-IO HDF5 files based on VTK. 🦋 Yes, it literally views your HDF5 files. Slay.

✨ NAME ✨

siconos_vview — Viewer for Siconos mechanics-IO HDF5 files based on VTK.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

siconos_vview [OPTION]... <HDF5>

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Description: it's a viewer and exporter for Siconos mechanics-IO HDF5 files based on VTK. That's the whole vibe. You point it at an HDF5 file, it shows you the thing, or it exports the thing. Iconic behavior honestly.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --help — display this message. Your friendly lil "what do I do" button 🫶
  • --version — display version information.
  • --tmin= value — set the time lower bound for visualization. (Where the timeline starts, bestie.)
  • --tmax= value — set the time upper bound for visualization. (And where it stops.)
  • --cf-scale= value — default: 1.0. Rescale the arrow representing the contact forces by this value. the normal cone and the contact points are also rescaled — so yes, the whole ensemble gets the glow-up, not just the arrow ✨
  • --no-cf — do not display contact forces. Bye forces 💀
  • --imr — immediate-mode-rendering, use less memory at the price of slower rendering. Low memory, slower vibe. Pick your struggle 🙈
  • --global-filter — default: off. With export mode, concatenates all blocks in a big vtkPolyData. This option is for when the number of objects is huge. With vview, the display is done with only one vtk actor. Note that global-filter use a vtkCompositeDataGeometryFilter which is slow. > ⚠️ bestie it literally warns you it's slow. It said it itself. Don't be surprised.
  • --no-depth-peeling — default: on. do not use vtk depth peeling.
  • --maximum-number-of-peels= value — maximum number of peels when depth peeling is on. Peeling count, set it 🍓
  • --occlusion-ratio= value — occlusion-ratio when depth peeling is on.
  • --normalcone-ratio = value — default: 1.0. introduce a ratio between the representation of the contact forces arrows the normal cone and the contact points. useful when the contact forces are small with respect to the characteristic dimesion. (Tiny forces vs big dimension? This ratio is your bestie.)
  • --advance= value or 'fps' — automatically advance time during recording (default: don't advance). Pass a number, or literally the string 'fps'. Yes really. No cap.
  • --fps= value — frames per second of generated video (default: 25).
  • --camera=x,y,z — initial position of the camera (default=above looking down). Main character camera angle 👑
  • --lookat=x,y,z — initial direction to look (default=center of bounding box).
  • --up=x,y,z — initial up direction of the camera (default=y-axis).
  • --ortho=scale — start in ortho mode with given parallel scale (default=perspective).
  • --with-charts=value — display convergence charts. 📈
  • --visible=all — three moods, all listed right here:
    • all: view all contactors and avatars
    • avatars: view only avatar if an avatar is defined (for each object)
    • contactors: ignore avatars, view only contactors where avatars are contactors with collision_group=-1
  • --with-edges — add edges in the rendering (experimental for primitives). > 🔥 it says experimental for primitives, so, yk. proceed with the knowledge.
  • --with-fixed-color — use fixed color defined in the config file. 🎨
  • --depth-2d=<value> — specify a depth for 2D objects.
  • --verbose=<int verbose_level> — (ngl the manpage gives zero description for this one 🙈 it's just there, chillin', being a verbose level. That's all we got.)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the page, bestie 🫶 this whole thing was siconos_vview 4.5.0, dated January 2023, and it signs off in the footer as SICONOS_VVIEW(1) — so yeah, the version is 4.5.0, the date is January 2023, and the manual name is SICONOS_VVIEW(1). periodt 💅✨

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