If you have the same number of points in each time step, you could use the 
Exodus II format. The documentation is here 
(https://cubit.sandia.gov/public/documentation/MailingList/cubit/04/att-0110/exodusII.pdf)
 and you can download the source to the library here 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/exodusii/).

-Ken

From: Rohit Narurkar <rohitnarur...@gmail.com<mailto:rohitnarur...@gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:28 AM
To: Kenneth Moreland <kmo...@sandia.gov<mailto:kmo...@sandia.gov>>
Cc: "paraview@paraview.org<mailto:paraview@paraview.org>" 
<paraview@paraview.org<mailto:paraview@paraview.org>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] XYZ format in PV

So then what is the best format to use while handling time-varying data in 
ParaView? I currently use .csv files, but there is a separate file for each 
time step (so might go to about a million files for that many number of time 
steps).

Thanking you,
Rohit


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Moreland, Kenneth 
<kmo...@sandia.gov<mailto:kmo...@sandia.gov>> wrote:
It looks like the XYZ format could use a little love in ParaView. There are two 
XYZ readers in ParaView, and they both seem to have problems.

The first reader is labeled a "XYZ Files" and is actually one of the readers of 
the VisIt bridge. It works OK except that it does not handle time.

The second reader is labeled "XMol Molecule Files". That uses the 
vtkXYZMolReader class in VTK. The reader as many more features including time 
support (in a really outdated way), but there appears to be a bug that is 
causing it to crash all the time: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14203

-Ken

From: Rohit Narurkar <rohitnarur...@gmail.com<mailto:rohitnarur...@gmail.com>>
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:43 AM
To: "paraview@paraview.org<mailto:paraview@paraview.org>" 
<paraview@paraview.org<mailto:paraview@paraview.org>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] XYZ format in PV

Dear all,

I'm trying to import my time varying particle position data from an XYZ file 
format. In my file, instead of radius of particles, I mention what kind of 
particle it is (lets say C, H or O).
Now I would like to associate different radii with the different particle 
symbols. How do I do it in ParaView?

Next, if I have a time varying data, (file attached along), then why is 
ParaView not able to understand that there are multiple time steps? I am using 
a standard XYZ file format.

Thanks a lot,
Rohit.

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