PoreScene

Faber, Felix; Vorhauer-Huget, Nicole

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21494378

PoreScene¶

PoreScene is a Blender-based scientific visualization toolkit for porous media. It renders tomographic images, generated and reconstructed pore networks, as well as volume tessellations as photorealistic 3D scenes – with pores, throats, Voronoi cells, and watershed clusters colored by properties such as radius or coordination number using perceptually uniform colormaps, matching colorbars, and calibrated, on-scale axes.

The advantage: instead of clicking through a 3D editor, you describe the entire scene in a few lines of Python and render it reproducibly on Blender’s GPU-accelerated Cycles engine – so the same script always yields the same publication-quality figure, ready for papers, presentations, and animations.

Microstructure of a freeze-dried sugar solution.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Pore and throat morphology of a reconstructed pore network.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Simulated lactate concentration during biofilm growth.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

PNM stick and ball representation — Pore space tessellation of a reconstructed X-ray µ-CT image of a rock.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Pore coordination numbers — Microstructure of a graded titanium felt used in PEM water electrolyzers.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Oxygen concentration during Fickian diffusion.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Pore coordination numbers of a reconstructed pore network from wood.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Pore clusters of a regular pore network.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Ice saturation in the pore space during freeze-drying.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Structure of an *in-silico* computed biofilm.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Pore and throat diameters of a regular pore network.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Packed bed of monodisperse alumina spheres.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Microstructure of a European beech wood sphere.© Felix Faber / OVGU, Transport in Porous Media¶

Citation¶

If you use PoreScene to generate figures for a publication, please cite it. Citation metadata is provided in the repository’s CITATION.cff, and the software is archived on Zenodo under a version-independent concept DOI that always resolves to the latest release. You can use the BibTeX entry below:

@software{porescene,
  author = {Faber, Felix and Vorhauer-Huget, Nicole},
  title  = {{PoreScene}},
  year   = {2026},
  doi    = {10.5281/zenodo.21494378},
  url    = {https://github.com/fefafe/porescene},
}