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(the --state=... option manually loads the preconfigured session for UseCase1 on the commandline)
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### Instructions for working with the GUI
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From the file menu, choose File/Load State. Locate the pre-built ParaView
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state file UseCase1_ParaView.pvsm and click OK. "Fix Paths in State File"
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window opens. This window takes the location of the NoMaD data file as
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input. Click the three dots on the right hand side of the file name slot,
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to browse files. "Use case 1" data is in /hydra/u/mjr/public/NOMAD-VIZ/cubes-smaller
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folder. The browser displays numbered files in a sub-folder. To load the
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files as animation, choose this sub-folder and click OK. In a few seconds,
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ParaView state file opens, and the interface is ready for an interactive
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inspection of the data.
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![paraview_screenshot1](paraview_usecase_hydra_screenshot.png "Screenshot of a pRVS ParaView visualization of the same use-case data as shown with VisIT and VMD. ParaView "Ruler" tool is active and shows the distance between two atoms. View window is in query mode and displays the property list of the chosen object.")
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The 3D view window of this particular ParaView state file shows the following:
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* an outline of the spatial dimensions of the data, with scale on X, Y, Z axis
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* isovolume contours of the electron density on the solid slice
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### Instructions for working with the GUI
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### Ways to interactively inspect the data:
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* to rotate the view, left-click and drag. Zoom with right button or by
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scrolling mouse wheel, and pan with middle button.
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* to rotate the view, left-click and drag. Zoom with the right button or by
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scrolling the mouse wheel, and pan with the middle button.
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* to play an animation, or to move one step in time, use the video controls
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on the toolbar. The animation is loaded one file at a time, causing a lag
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The key points defining color and opacity can be interactively moved
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around, or their values edited.
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![paraview_screenshot1](paraview_usecase_hydra_screenshot.png "Screenshot of a pRVS ParaView visualization of the same use-case data as shown with VisIT in Figure 1. ParaView "Ruler" tool is active and shows the distance between two atoms. View window is in query mode and displays the property list of the chosen object.")
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Fig2: Screenshot of a pRVS ParaView visualization of the same use-case data as
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shown with VisIT in Figure 1. ParaView "Ruler" tool is active and shows
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the distance between two atoms. View window is in query mode and displays
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the property list of the chosen object. |