Title: An exploration to visualize finite element data with a DSL,
Abstract: The scientific community use PDEs to model a range of problems. The people in
this domain are interested in visualizing their results, but existing
mechanisms for visualization can not handle the full richness of computations
in the domain. We did an exploration to see how Diderot, a domain specific
language for scientific visualization and image analysis, could be used to
solve this problem.
We demonstrate our first and modest approach of visualizing FE data with
Diderot and provide examples. Using Diderot, we do a simple sampling and a
volume rendering of a FE field. These examples showcase Diderot's ability to
provide a visualization result for Firedrake. This paper describes the
extension of the Diderot language to include FE data.