You are looking for a file called VTK-file-formats.pdf which explains the "legacy" file formats. There are some XML based file formats that might also be useful. Just depends what the simulation is writing.
http://www.vtk.org/VTK/img/file-formats.pdf ___________________________________________________________ Mike Jackson Principal Software Engineer BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio mike.jack...@bluequartz.net www.bluequartz.net On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Torsten Lange wrote: > Hello, > > I asked a student to get familiar with vtk formats to later write scripts to > extract geometry and scalar/property data from a simulation tool to be > visualized in PARAVIEW. > > There are two books offered related to vtk (Textbook and User's Guide). Would > one of those be helpful for the student? Or are the online sources > sufficient? > Or maybe other books? > > Thank you, > Torsten > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
