In this page, I present example parameter files and their visualization results by using Splotch. Examples and guides given by Claudio Gheller will be also useful. Visit this link where you can also acquire the most recent version of Splotch.

- Examples of using a single scalar quantity for color.
The input data has particle positions ranging from 0 to 1 stored in binary table format. The box size of this cosmological simulation is 100 Mpc/h with 2048^3 grids. The examples show the visualization of about 174 million particles by using 96 MPI processes.
1) Default (parameters and log).

2) Changing brightness0=1.0 to brightness0=10.0 (parameters).

3) Changing color_asinh0=t to color_log0=t (parameters).

4) Changing intensity_max0=5.0e+11 to intensity_max0=5.0e+9 (parameters).

5) Changing no intensity_min0 to intensity_min0=5.0e+7 (parameters).

7) Changing smooth_factor=0.001 to smooth_factor=0.01 (parameters).

- Examples of using three scalar quantities for color.
The box size of this cosmological simulation is 200 Mpc/h. The examples show the visualization of about 1 billion particles by using 48 MPI processes.
1) Using binary format with a uniform-grid simulation output (parameters).
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2) Using binary format with an AMR-grid simulation output (parameters).
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The video above was made by using the following camera path:

where the center of the simulation box and the video sits at the origin (0, 0, 0).

The following videos show the usage of several different color palettes.
1) jet

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2) RdYlBu_r

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3) Stars

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In addition to the default color palettes included in the Splotch release, you can have additional color palettes which are derived from the Python Matplotlib. Download this file which is a zip file of the additional "pal" files.