COVISE Batch:


COVISE Batch allows you to perform time-consuming computations during the application of COVISE in the the background without manual intervention.

COVISE (version 5.3 or higher) provides scripting capabilities.
This means that COVISE can provide a prompt to enter commands which will be executed upon pressing the "Enter" key on your keyboard. These commands represent a significant subset of the functionality of COVISE and cover almost the whole functionality of COVISE with respect to data import/export data analysis and visualization. Naturally you can create a batch script by writing COVISE commands to a file and make COVISE to execute these commands sequentially. This extension is mainly aimed at performing time-consuming computations of your visualization, like data conversion, sampling of data, etc. without interaction of the user. Thus it opens the opportunity to perform batch processing.

Apparently COVISE scripting may be used to create predefined visualization animations like automated motion of a cutting-surface through your visualization domain using a well defined time-line.

COVISE incorporates the well established scripting language Python (www.python.org) known from internet programming, rapid prototyping and scientific computing. In addition COVISE facilitates the creation of python-scripts from already existing visualization scenarios.