Hi Justin,

That's a very well timed question. Happily Fangyi (Thomas) Zhou is with us as a summer student working on this precise problem. He's started out by implementing some functionality for 1 and 2 dimensions using matplotlib. If you're feeling brave you can try the plotting and plotting-1d branches but they will hopefully land in master in the next week or so.

Meanwhile I'm at WCCM and was in a visualisation session this morning. It appears that what both PyFR and GMSH are now doing is using catalyst, which is a runtime paraview interface (http://www.paraview.org/in-situ/). I think it would be really cool if Thomas has a look at that next (although I haven't yet had a chance to discuss that with him since we're not in the same location or timezone right now).

Regards,

David

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 at 13:56 Justin Chang <jychang48@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

One of the beautiful things about FEniCS is its ability to produce runtime plots of the solution. Is there (or will there be) a way to do this in Firedrake? It is a little bit cumbersome to dump the solution into a pvd file and (re)open it in paraview/VisIt each time you want to tweak something.

Thanks,

Justin