Bringing Computational Steering to the User

Abstract

The aim of computational steering is to provide researchers more insight in simulations by enabling them to change parameters on the fly and to observe the result immediately. In practice, however, the development of computational steering applications requires considerable expertise in a wide variety of disciplines. In this paper we present a computational steering environment that simplifies this task. Changes to the code are limited to adding a few procedure calls, graphical user interfaces can be defined and connected easily. The effectiveness of this approach is shown by a range of different applications.