AMROC's HDF Tools - Documentation

hdf2v3 and hdf2file are AMROC's native visualization tools. hdf2v3 relies on the Visual3-library and is intended for the comfortable graphical visualization of two- and especially three- dimensional results.

hdf2file is a conversion tool with a similar parameter-interface that can produce new HDF-files, ASCII-tabulars and input for:

• Tecplot
• IBM's Data Explorer
• LLNL Visit
• LANL Paraview

hdf2file is intended to be used for one-dimensional results, to generate lower-dimensional cuts, to create HDF-files for derived quantities and as an interface to very advanced visualization tools.

Up to now, hdf2v3 and hdf2file are limited to read HDF-files with cell-centered data that have been produced by finite-volume scheme for Euler equations. The output can be cell- or node-centered.

The AMROC HDF tools are built directly on top of the Hierarchical Data Structures package and only use AMROC's Parameter IO package for processing input files.