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So I have been playing around with different visualization tools the last few days. Generally, I use gnuplot for all my plotting purposes and it does a great job producing paper grade plots. It even works quite well for just having a quick look at 3D data (like particle distributions et al.) or also 2D scalar fields, like a density field for example.

However, doing really fancy 3D visualization is not its purpose. I have been testing povray for that before and I got a few fancy images. But this does not quite give this immediate feedback of what you are doing: changing the colour mapping requires, naturally, a re-render, which for a decently sized volume data can take a couple of minutes.