PVGeo: an open-source Python package for geoscientific visualization in
VTK and ParaView
Abstract
PVGeo is an open-source Python package for geoscientific visualization
and analysis harnessing an already powerful software platform: the
Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and its front-end application, ParaView. The
VTK software platform is well-maintained, contains an expansive set of
native functionality, and provides a robust foundation for scientific
visualization, yet the development of tools compatible for geoscience
data and models has been very limited. As a software extension package
to VTK and ParaView, PVGeo addresses the lack of geoscientific
compatibility by creating a framework for geo-visualization. This
framework is a set of tools for visually integrating geoscience data and
models directly within ParaView’s graphical user interface, simplifying
the required routines to make compelling visualizations of geoscientific
datasets. The PVGeo package is available for download on PyPI (pip
install PVGeo), documented online (http://pvgeo.org), and open-source on
GitHub (https://github.com/OpenGeoVis/PVGeo) for community-driven
developments.