.. _reference.pipelines:

Pipelines
=========

Data pipelines are the basis of the OVITO workflow. Please see the :ref:`introduction section <usage.modification_pipeline>` to get familiar with the concept.
The following sections describe the different building blocks that you use to build a data pipeline in OVITO:

.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 1

  data_sources/index
  data_objects/index
  visual_elements/index
  modifiers/index

.. seealso::
  
  :py:class:`ovito.pipeline.Pipeline` (Python API)  
  