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ParaView

Open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application

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ParaView is the world's leading open source post-processing visualization engine. It allows users to analyze and visualize data in any setting, from supercomputers to laptops. It can be run in situ using ParaView Catalyst and in a web browser using trame. The software runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and supports architectures including Intel, AMD, ARM, NVIDIA, and POWER ISA. It uses the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) as its data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using Qt.

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