EnSight's powerful particle tracing facility can trace particles (either steady-state or transient) through flow fields. Animating the resulting traces often promotes intuitive comprehension of the characteristics of the underlying flow field. Traces are animated by displaying one or more tracers on all traces of the trace part. A tracer moves along the path of a trace with length proportional to the local velocity. EnSight provides complete control over all aspects of the tracers including length, speed, and release interval for multiple pulses.

This article covers particle trace animation and assumes that you have already created one or more particle trace parts. See Create Particle Traces for more information.