Week 5: Hypercube And Outline

Hi, everyone!

This week in my internship, I continued working on the Latin hypercube, trying to visualize it using ParaView. ParaView is open-source software for visualizing data, and I haven’t even scratched the surface of its capabilities. I learned how to write .vtk files, a format ParaView can interpret, and it took a lot of trial and error to get the syntax right. If there was an error, the program simply wouldn’t run, and it wouldn’t indicate what the problem was, which led to much time spent re-re-reading what I’d typed to try to find the error. I feel like I’ve got the hang of it now, but I’ve only really tried to draw points and lines, which are the simplest things ParaView can do. Nothing like the pictures I included with earlier blog posts of air flowing around a car or a cylinder. I did finally succeed in visualizing the points from one run of my hypercube code in 3-D, a 10x10x10 cube, and its exterior edges (which is way harder than it sounds, to find out which points to connect, since the .vtk file creates lines from the indices of points you input, not the coordinates of said points). I included a screenshot below.

As for my independent research, I began outlining for my final paper so that I can organize my ideas in a comprehensible manner and see what information or steps I am missing. This will tell me what type of articles I need to read more of or what logical gaps exist in my reasoning/explanation and analysis of the Featherstone Refuge.
See you next week,
Daria

This is a screenshot of ParaView on my computer, where I visualized the hypercube in 3-D.