Scientific Visualization - Science topic

Delft 3D-Flow produces NEFIS compliant history and map file output (*.dat files). The view capability of Delft 3D 's post processor is good but not as advanced as the specialized (scientific) visualization software like ParaView or VisIt. I want to view Delft 3D output in in ParaView but ParaView cannot open Delft 3D files directly.

One possible way is to convert Delft 3D output files to NetCDF (*.nc) files and then view it in ParaView as it can open *.nc files. I have even found a Matlab (see this https://oss.deltares.nl/web/delft3d/general/-/message_boards/view_message/1379779 and https://svn.oss.deltares.nl/repos/openearthtools/trunk/matlab/applications/delft3d/vs_trim2nc.m ) script as well to do the job however it failed with an error message ( Undefined function or variable 'filenameext' )

I do not know any other possible way to do the job. If someone would guide, suggest any other possibility or just comment, it will be highly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards

Ahmed

I have three datasets A,B and C. Each includes tens of thousands of chemical compounds. We know that A[1], the first compound in A, is similar to B[30] and both are similar to C[9999] and we call this compound NEO; A,B &C share a lot of such compounds. I wanna show A, B and C in such a way that each compound is a dot (Properties of the compound such as molecular weight can be used as 2D or 3D coordinates) and I also wanna show that they all share NEO and many more of such shared molecules and many more molecules that are only in A and not others, etc,etc.

 A venn diagram would be the simplest way. But, can I make a venn diagram of the actual data, by showing each fragment as a dot and visualize the shared ones as overlapping? 

Or a plot like the microarray having bins for compounds with certain properties and showing A,B,C with different colors (or A&C, A&B, B&C and A&B&C with colors)?

I also came across hiveplot but I'm not sure if that is a good option or not! 

In reality A,B and C are datasets of compounds in natural products, FDA approved drugs and synthetic chemicals. I wanna visualize the distribution of these compounds, in other words which compounds are shared between these datasets. 

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