ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application based on Visualization Toolkit (VTK).

The first public release was announced in October 2002. Since then, the project has grown through collaborative efforts between Kitware Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, and various other government and commercial institutions, and academic partners.

• General information is available at the ParaView Homepage.

• The ParaView Guide can be downloaded (as PDF) or purchased (in print).

• Community discussion takes place on the ParaView Mailing Lists.

• Commercial support and training are available from Kitware.

• Additional documentation, including Doxygen-generated nightly reference documentation, is available online.

There are two ways to build ParaView:

• Perhaps the easiest method for beginners to build ParaView from source is using the ParaView Superbuild. The superbuild downloads and builds all of ParaView's dependencies as well as ParaView itself.

• It is also possible to build ParaView without using the superbuild. ParaView's dependencies must be available on the system.

If you have found a bug:

1. If you have a source-code fix, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.

2. Otherwise, please join the one of the ParaView Mailing Lists and ask about the expected and observed behaviors to determine if it is really a bug.

3. Finally, if the issue is not resolved by the above steps, open an entry in the ParaView Issue Tracker.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions to contribute.

Github is a mirror of the official repository. We do not actively monitor issues or pull requests on Github. Please use the official repository to report issues or contribute fixes.

ParaView is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License. See Copyright.txt for details. For additional licenses, refer to ParaView Licenses.