How to visualize the grains and their evolutionΒΆ

We provide a number of shell scripts to visualize the output. You basically need gnuplot to run these postprocessing scripts:

  1. plotNetworkAtTime.sh

execute: sh plotNetworkAtTime.sh ‘timestep’

The script will draw the polycrystal at time “timestep”. “timestep” has to be a multiple of the “Analysisstep” defined in the parameters.xml.

This is a possible result:

_images/SCubeBiProtrusions.jpg

The colors of the GB describe teh charcater of the GB (mobility times energy).

  1. produceAnimation_aux.sh

execute: sh plotNetworkAtTime.sh ‘analysisstep’

The script will draw the evolution of the polycrystal by composing a .gif file. “analysisstep” has to be a multiple of the “Analysisstep” defined in the parameters.xml.