Rapid visulalization with VTKMapper

​VtkMapper is a Python script developed by Patrick Brockmann for the PRISM project. It visualizes scalar fields from NetCDF-CF files on unstructured grids. VTKMapper is free software available under the CeCILL license. As a Python script it does not need to be compiled. However it needs a few Python packages to run, see below.

Required Python packages : Linux

First, you will probably need to install the following packages :

• numpy
• python-dev
• vtk-python

Then try installing the python-netCDF4 module found ​here. See the ​installation notes

Required Python packages : Mac

VTKMapper runs with MacOSX as well. The main prerequisite is again the NetCDF4 python module. This module itself needs some packages that can be installed using MacPorts.