I was curious if anyone has had experience with creating their own reader/editing an existing reader for ParaView or could tell me if it was even possible. Thank you.
Best, Dan Levitus -- Daniel Levitus University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana B.S Civil Engineering 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers | Professional-Student Liaison daniel.levi...@gmail.com | 847-220-2503 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Daniel Levitus <daniel.levi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Continuing with the idea of comments within the VTK Legacy format, is it > possible to edit an existing ParaView Reader to allow comments to not read > as an error? If so how would one edit that reader? The XML format > previously mentioned, while extremely powerful, is not an ideal choice for > the data file need. Thanks in advance for any past and future help. > > Best, > Dan Levitus > -- > Daniel Levitus > University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana > B.S Civil Engineering 2013 > American Society of Civil Engineers | Treasurer > daniel.levi...@gmail.com | 847-220-2503 > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Daniel Levitus > <daniel.levi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Comments within my data file. I want to be able to describe the sections >> in detail such that people within my research group understand the purpose >> of the inputted data. I suppose then the XML format will be necessary. >> Thank you again for your help, it is much appreciated. >> >> Best, >> Dan >> >> -- >> Daniel Levitus >> University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana >> B.S Civil Engineering 2013 >> American Society of Civil Engineers | Treasurer >> daniel.levi...@gmail.com | 847-220-2503 >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Michael Jackson < >> mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote: >> >>> When you say "comments" are you just wanting some comments in your data >>> file? or do you want these comments to be rendered/available inside >>> paraview? If the first is what you want (just a way to demark the sections >>> of data) then the XML based vtk files are standard XML so you can use the >>> XML style comments: >>> >>> <!-- XML Comment --> >>> >>> If that does NOT work then Vtk/ParaView is not implementing a standard >>> XML reader. >>> -- >>> Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net> >>> >>> On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Daniel Levitus wrote: >>> >>> > The vector data seemed to work fine. I thought I tried that before but >>> must have had an error somewhere. As for the comments, does the XML VTK >>> format allow comments? Or is there another file type that allows comments >>> that is a similar format as the VTK Legacy File? Thank you Mike for your >>> help. >>> > >>> > Best, >>> > Dan Levitus >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Daniel Levitus >>> > University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana >>> > B.S Civil Engineering 2013 >>> > American Society of Civil Engineers | Treasurer >>> > daniel.levi...@gmail.com | 847-220-2503 >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Michael Jackson < >>> mike.jack...@bluequartz.net> wrote: >>> > The only comment in a vtk legacy file is allowed on the second line of >>> the file and must be 255 chars or less. >>> > >>> > As for the vectors, if you are creating POINT_DATA then you MUST >>> include data for each of the points, whether or not you actually have any >>> data there to represent. >>> > >>> > You may have to write 3 sets of POINT_DATA, one for each of Tangent, >>> Binormal and Normal. You might be able to put a (0,0,0) as the vector to >>> basically not have it show up but I am not sure if that would work or not. >>> > >>> > Try this: >>> > >>> > # vtk DataFile Version 1.0 >>> > 3D Crack Modeling >>> > ASCII >>> > DATASET POLYDATA >>> > >>> > POINTS 4 float >>> > 0.0 0.0 5.0 >>> > 1.0 0.0 5.0 >>> > 0.0 1.0 5.0 >>> > 1.0 1.0 5.0 >>> > >>> > POLYGONS 2 8 >>> > 3 0 1 2 >>> > 3 1 3 2 >>> > >>> > LINES 2 6 >>> > 2 0 1 >>> > 2 2 3 >>> > >>> > POINT_DATA 4 >>> > SCALARS node_numbering int 1 >>> > LOOKUP_TABLE default >>> > 0 >>> > 2 >>> > 4 >>> > 6 >>> > >>> > VECTORS Binormal float >>> > 0 1 0 >>> > 0 1 0 >>> > 0 0 0 >>> > 0 1 0 >>> > >>> > VECTORS Tangent float >>> > 0 0 1 >>> > 0 0 1 >>> > 0 0 0 >>> > 0 0 1 >>> > >>> > VECTORS Normal float >>> > 1 0 0 >>> > 1 0 0 >>> > 0 0 0 >>> > 1 0 0 >>> > >>> > >>> > CELL_DATA 4 >>> > SCALARS cell_numbering int 1 >>> > LOOKUP_TABLE default >>> > -1 >>> > -1 >>> > 0 >>> > 2 >>> > >>> > >>> > Then use the Glyph Filter to display the vectors as arrows. >>> > ___________________________________________________________ >>> > Mike Jackson Principal Software Engineer >>> > BlueQuartz Software Dayton, Ohio >>> > mike.jack...@bluequartz.net www.bluequartz.net >>> > >>> > On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Daniel Levitus wrote: >>> > >>> > > I realized that my past email was not detailed enough as I was in a >>> rush to get it out, but attached are 3 files that should help explain what >>> I am trying to convey. The image named "No vectors" is what I currently >>> have modeled in ParaView from the data file (also included). What I am >>> hoping to have, is in the data file, a place to enter in the data for 3 >>> different vectors at as many points as I want and then be able to apply a >>> filter via ParaView so that the end result would look like the second image >>> name BNT. >>> > > >>> > > Hopefully this makes more sense.Thank you. >>> > > >>> > > Dan Levitus >>> > > -- >>> > > Daniel Levitus >>> > > University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana >>> > > B.S Civil Engineering 2013 >>> > > American Society of Civil Engineers | Treasurer >>> > > daniel.levi...@gmail.com | 847-220-2503 >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Levitus < >>> daniel.levi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > > I have two questions regarding the VTK Legacy file format. >>> > > >>> > > The first being how can one write comments in the file without >>> ParaView returning an error? I have tried #, %, //, /* and none have seemed >>> to work. I have searched online as well and cannot seem to find something >>> that suggests other methods. >>> > > >>> > > The second and bit more in depth question is: How can I apply three >>> different sets of vector data to the same point in the Legacy format? I >>> have a simple triangular grid and at certain points I want to be able to >>> declare Tangent, Binormal, and Normal vectors for those points. >>> > > >>> > > If more clarification is required please let me know >>> > > >>> > > Best, >>> > > Dan Levitus >>> > > -- >>> > > Daniel Levitus >>> > > University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana >>> > > B.S Civil Engineering 2013 >>> > > American Society of Civil Engineers | Treasurer >>> > > daniel.levi...@gmail.com | 847-220-2503 >>> > > >>> > > <BNT.png><No vectors.PNG><Step >>> 0.vtk>_______________________________________________ >>> > > 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 >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >> >
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