This is a program for interactive visualisation of
Gadget N-body simulation
snapshots. It can automatically identify and read all of the
formats described in the Gadget-2.0 documentation and produce
dot plots (optionally colour coded by particle properties such
as temperature, metallicity etc) or SPH smoothed density plots
of the particle distribution. It can handle simulations with too
many particles to display by random sampling the particles to
keep the number displayed roughly constant as the viewpoint is
moved around. Other features include the ability to:
- Read user defined particle properties from HDF5 or type 2 binary snapshots
- Select particles by position or by other properties and track them between snapshots
- Make histograms and scatterplots of particle properties,
optionally highlighting any selected particles - Make simple movies
This program replaces the old IDL version.
The program is written in a mix of C and Fortran so you need
working C and Fortran compilers to build it. GTK-2 is required
for the GUI. It also has some optional dependencies:
- HDF5 – if you want to be able to read HDF5 snapshots
- PlPlot or Cairo – for plotting graphs and annotating the main display
- LibPNG – for writing out screenshots and movie frames
The code is now distributed via github. Please see the releases page for the current release version.
The tar file contains a README file with instructions for compiling
and running the code.
The main program window with particles in a halo selected
A plot of internal energy vs density for the displayed particles
