Volume Rendering

Volume Rendering provides a whole new way to peer into the 3D data by raytracing through the elements to calculate color and transparency.  Its a computationally intensive process only now possible in mainstream computer hardware thanks to video grame and GPU performance enhancements in video cards.  

Volume Rendering of a Rocket Stage Separation. Focusing on the shock regions.

Learning Volume Rendering is easy.  Start with this 60 second screencast .

Surface Rendering

Surface Rendering allows us to incorporate transparency as part of the color palette of a surface part making it easier than ever to bring to attention the relevant areas of interest and to eliminate or downplay the mundane.  EnSight previously had a basic capability to do this at the min and below and the max and above using the "limit fringes" capability.  With Surface Rendering you can also do this multiple times and in arbitrary places within the color palette.  Want to ignore middle temperatures and focus on the extremes,  or want to emphasize suction and lift and ignore neutral bouyancy, then surface rendering can be useful.

Color Palette Editor 

The improved color palette editor takes the already powerful palette editor and adds support for surface rendering and volume rendering while making all the options better organized, and easier to learn and use. 

This screencast explains the new color palette editor.

Session Files

Like Command files, context files, and Archives, session files allow you to save your work and reuse it at a later time.  Session files are based on context files.

Session Files are improvements over context files in the following ways.

    Context files had 3 or more files,  A session file is a much easier to manage single file

    Optionally include the dataset
    Cross-platform and portable,  sending session files to colleagues or customers    

    Screenshot included, to help identify quickly betwen session files

    Automatically detected by EnSight welcome screen for convenience

    EnSight session files are use .ens filename extensions to uniquely identify them and to return the GUI to the proper state when restoring them.

Welcome Screen

In the welcome screen shown above you can scroll through the session file list on the left hand pane and see the Session Preview in the right hand pane. A description of the session is created when you save the session file.

Tip and Tutorials is an RSS feed to provide the latest video tutorials or late breaking news on new features and versions.

Less Memory for Polyhedral Cell Models  

EnSight 9.1 includes improvements in two different areas to reduce the memory required for Polyhedral Cell models.  The net result in some testing by CEI has shown to be about 40% less memory, based on a small sample of test datasets. 

Want to know more?  

•  Download the software

• 9.1 video tutorials

• 9.1 presentation ( pdf 1.84 Mb)

• 9.1 brochure (pdf 650.88 Kb)