Splotch

Abstract

Splotch is a raytracer to visualize SPH simulations.

This software package is developed and brought to you by

Martin Reinecke (martin<at>mpa-garching.mpg.de)

Klaus Dolag (kdolag<at>mpa-garching.mpg.de)

Splotch is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License. This implies that you may freely distribute and copy the software. You may also modify it as you wish, and distribute these modified versions as long as you indicate prominently any changes you made in the original code, and as long as you leave the copyright notices, and the no-warranty notice intact. Please read the General Public License for more details. Note that the authors retain their copyright on the code.
Requested Acknowledgement
The authors kindly ask you to acknowledge the use of the Splotch package in your publications in the following form:
At the first image produced with Splotch, a footnote placed in the main body of the paper referring to the Splotch web-site - currently http://dipastro.pd.astro.it/~cosmo/Splotch
Download Sourcecode
Splotch is written in the C++ language. To install it you have just to unpack the splotch_2.0.tar.gz, check the #define statements at the beginning of splotch.cc and to compile it via:
g++ -O2 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -Icxxsupport fullsplotch.cc
History
- 07.02.2005: First public version, v 1.0
- 22.07.2005: Many improvements, v 1.1
- 16.08.2006: Many improvements, now allows to process a geoemtry file to render several different aspects of a single simulation without reloading the data from disk.
  v 2.0
Example Images