[Paraview] Program to write .VTK

2009-02-12 Thread Renan Leser
Hello everybody, I'm searching for a program to write some .DAT files in .VTK format. (for * Paraview* visualization) These .DATs contains grid structure(bathymetry), lat, long, scalars and vectors. I'm writing them *manually* in .VTK, like these: # vtk DataFile Version 3.0 vtk output ASCII

[Paraview] [newbie] Animating time-series MFIX data

2009-02-12 Thread Mark S. Bentley
Hi all, Please excuse my newbie question - I'm a new ParaVIEW user this week. I have a time-series dataset generated from the MFIX CFD code that I want to visualise. I have no problem loading and displaying the data. I can generate an isosurface, for example, and animate such that the

Re: [Paraview] [newbie] Animating time-series MFIX data

2009-02-12 Thread Berk Geveci
Actually, this seems to be a bug in the reader. Creating the contour and then hitting play should just work. I tested and it does not. We will look into it. -berk On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Mark S. Bentley m...@lunartech.org wrote: Hi all, Please excuse my newbie question - I'm a new

Re: [Paraview] particle tracking

2009-02-12 Thread John Biddiscombe
Berk Oops. I didn't notice that it was a "steady state" flow field. The TemporalStremTRacer expects unsteady flows, however it would be quite simple to modify it to use a single step. (I think easier than taking streamlines and animating particles along them - though thinking about it, the

Re: [Paraview] particle tracking

2009-02-12 Thread Jean Favre
Berk Geveci wrote: To animate particles in a steady-state flow field, I'd think that you would generate streamlines and then somehow animate particles along those. this is exactly the technique I use. Generate streamlines. Then iso-contour the streamline object with the scalar field

Re: [Paraview] particle tracking

2009-02-12 Thread Berk Geveci
Interesting. I guess the biggest challenge of doing this in our pipeline would be finding the time range. Ideally, the integration should continue until all particles leave the domain or get stuck in a stagnant region. That would require integrating them first and then looking at the largest

[Paraview] Why is PKdTree used for IMAGE Volume Rendering?

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin H. Hobbs
I just tried to use ParaView from Tuesday's CVS (The network was down last night.) on both CPU cores to volume render a large (1/4 the size of available RAM) image. As soon as I selected volume render for the representation I saw the status bar show PKdTree and moments later all of the system

Re: [Paraview] Why is PKdTree used for IMAGE Volume Rendering?

2009-02-12 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Do you have any unstructured data being rendering in the scene? KdTree is used to distribute that unstructured data in accordance with the partitions provided by the structured data. Utkarsh On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Kevin H. Hobbs hob...@ohiou.edu wrote: I just tried to use ParaView

Re: [Paraview] Why is PKdTree used for IMAGE Volume Rendering?

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin H. Hobbs
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 14:26 -0500, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Do you have any unstructured data being rendering in the scene? No, just one big .vti image. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Powered by www.kitware.com

Re: [Paraview] Why is PKdTree used for IMAGE Volume Rendering?

2009-02-12 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Kevin, The KdTree is still built (using the partitions from the structured dataset set itself -- hence isn't a very compute intensive task) just in case it's needed to partition any unstructured data, hence you're seeing the PKdTree progress. But I don't think that's where it is hanging. Is the

Re: [Paraview] Why is PKdTree used for IMAGE Volume Rendering?

2009-02-12 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Ah and there's the bad news. In case of image data for the if condition at vtkPKdTree.cxx:435, I'd expect the condition to succeed and go to this-ProcessUserDefinedCuts(..) however, it seems like that condition is failing and it's going to this-MultiProcessBuildLocator(..) which is used for

Re: [Paraview] particle tracking

2009-02-12 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
That's a really cool solution. Bravo Jean. -Ken On 2/12/09 6:58 AM, Jean Favre jfa...@cscs.ch wrote: Berk Geveci wrote: To animate particles in a steady-state flow field, I'd think that you would generate streamlines and then somehow animate particles along those. this is exactly the

Re: [Paraview] particle tracking

2009-02-12 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
This conversation has basically become academic, but it would also be pretty easy to create a filter that reported a bunch of time steps and just passed the same data every time. The particle tracer would thing it was a time varying data even though it was not. Jean's solution is still easier

Re: [Paraview] Why is PKdTree used for IMAGE Volume Rendering?

2009-02-12 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Kevin, Attached is a patch. Can you verify that it works after applying the patch? If so, I'll commit it to CVS. Thanks Utkarsh On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Kevin H. Hobbs hob...@ohiou.edu wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:34 -0500, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Ah and there's the bad news. In

Re: [Paraview] Why is PKdTree used for IMAGE Volume Rendering?

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin H. Hobbs
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 17:27 -0500, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Kevin, Attached is a patch. Can you verify that it works after applying the patch? If so, I'll commit it to CVS. Thanks Utkarsh Yup that fixed it. The PKdTree completes immediately and then I get my volume rendering. Thank you!

Re: [Paraview] particletracer

2009-02-12 Thread Martin Uppman
Sorry, but this doesnt make any sense to me. I have a 3D dataset with magnitude and velocity (X,Y,Z) for 13 time frames. And as you wrote, paraview internally converts multiple vktDataSets into a TemporalDataSet. But particle tracer requires multiple time steps, why does it then give error that a