SPLASH: An interactive visualisation tool for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations

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 is 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.

14 pages, 11 figures, accepted to PASA. Download SPLASH from http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/dprice/splash -- you won't regret it

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