GLnemo2 v1.9 Particle Viewer Released – Overview, Screenshots and Ubuntu Installation

GLnemo2 is a 3D particle visualization program with various capabilities and support for OpenGL rendered objects.

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GLnemo2 is written in Qt5 and supports formats such as Nemo, Gadget 1 and 2, RAMSES, TIPSY, Fits, FTM.

The latest version, 1.9, was released a few hours ago, and comes with several new features, like support for the FITS and 3D datacube formats (via plugins), new shader to display velocity, and many GUI additions for functions. Here is a complete list according to the changelog:

experimental FITS files plugin reader objects creation feature from GUI new shader to display velocity, better interactivity velocity factor in floating point format particles can be colored by velocity norm add option to load velocities from GUI background and text color can be set from CLI add button to select all particles on screen osd print out center instead of transfer zoom/rot/center can be modified from GUI improve toggle perspective/orthographic view coronograph also works with particles without density fix a slow rendering issue with qt 5.2.1 and above (linux) add busy cursor when processing

glnemo2_01 Install GLnemo2 in Ubuntu 15.10

Download the source tarball from here (direct link) and uncompress it.

Next, install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake qt5-default libccfits-dev

Change the working directory to glnemo2 and type:

mkdir build && cd build cmake .. make sudo make install

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