Dear Paraview user group: I would like to plot/animate the motion of particles. The particles were initially randomly distributed within a Xmin Ymin Xmax Ymax domain. The particles are then start to move toward a magnetic source. I can done calculating the positions of each partcile at each time step. What format should I use so that paraview can handle ploting/animate the positions of the particles? (the particle sizes are also randomly distributed, it will be nice to show the particle size based on the same scaling).
I made up 10 csv files each with x,y,z,d. Each csv corresponds to each time
step. I am using paraview 3.6.1 (MS windows version).
the filenames are output1.csv, output2.csv, output3.csv....
When I first opened the files, I chose output..csv (I think that this will open
all the csv files). Hit apply, I got output* in the pipeline browser.
Then, I did filter/TableToPoints and chose the X Column, Y Column, Z Column.
Hit apply.
Then did "Split Horizontal" to create a new display window and select "3D View".
Then, Filter/Glyph. change Glyph type to sphere, change scale mode to scalar,
hit apply.
This got me all the particles with correct size.
However, when I press "Play" button to animate, I got the following error:
ERROR: In ..\..\..\src\VTK\Graphics\vtkTableToPolyData.cxx, line 111
vtkTableToPolyData (06CC5D88): Failed to locate the columns to use for the
point coordinates
ERROR: In ..\..\..\src\VTK\Filtering\vtkExecutive.cxx, line 757
vtkCompositeDataPipeline (06CC6028): Algorithm vtkTableToPolyData(06CC5D88)
returned failure for request: vtkInformation (06C661F0)
Debug: Off
Modified Time: 314249
Reference Count: 1
Registered Events: (none)
Request: REQUEST_DATA
FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
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If I open each .csv file indivisually and go through the steps above (without
the animation), I got a nice plot of the particles. So, each csv file seems to
be fine.
Did I miss any step so that animation does not work?
Pei
I attached the csv file I made up so that you can check if the csv files are
not correctly formatted.
output0.csv
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output1.csv
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output2.csv
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output3.csv
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output4.csv
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output5.csv
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output6.csv
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output7.csv
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output8.csv
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output9.csv
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