RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Interactive 3D visualization and post-processing analysis of vertex-based unstructured polyhedral meshes with ParaView
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2021.10.15.464601
DO 10.1101/2021.10.15.464601
A1 Sanematsu, Paula C.
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/10/16/2021.10.15.464601.abstract
AB The development of physics-based 3D models that investigate the behavior of biological tissues requires effective and efficient visualization tools. The open-source software ParaView has such capabilities, but often impose a steep learning curve due to the use of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) data structures. To overcome this, I show how to setup the components of 3D vertex-like models, i.e., vertices, faces, and polyhedra, into the VTK data format and then output as ParaView unstructured grid files. I present a few relevant tools to visualize and analyze the files in ParaView. All sample codes are available in the Github repository vis3Dvertex.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.