VTK and ParaView have many reader classes. Did you have a particular format in mind?If not, then I suggest to navigate to VTK/IO/ and look at the source code contained therein.
HTH, Cory On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Guillermo Giraldo <guillegira...@gmail.com > wrote: > Thanks, now it's clear. > > If I'd like to find the actual VTK file reading process, where in the > repository should I look? > > El vie., 16 de oct. de 2015 a la(s) 4:12 p. m., Cory Quammen < > cory.quam...@kitware.com> escribió: > >> Guillermo, >> >> vtkSplitColumnComponents assigns the names based on a guess that >> 3-component arrays are vectors with X, Y, Z components and 6-component >> arrays represent symmetric 3x3 matrices, i.e. >> >> XX XY XZ >> XY YY YZ >> XZ YZ ZZ >> >> See ParaView/ParaViewCore/VTKExtensions/Core/vtkPVPostFilter.cxx, lines >> 147-174. >> >> HTH, >> Cory >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Guillermo Giraldo < >> guillegira...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to know how Paraview analyses scalar data from a VTK data file. >>> Specially, how it extracts the components of a scalar and assigns names for >>> color plots. For example if numComp is 3 they are named "Magnitude, X, Y >>> and Z2, but if numComp is 6 they are named "Magnitude, XX, YY; ZZ, XY, XZ >>> and YZ". How is this determined? >>> >>> Some questions I'd like to answer are: can this be done with only the >>> VTK library? If not, are there any other library that can do it (e.g. >>> paraview python)? >>> >>> Pointing to the specific code file in the git repository should be >>> enough, but an explanation would be great! >>> >>> Thanks in advance and greetings. >>> -- >>> Por favor confirmar recepción. >>> >>> Atte. >>> >>> Guillermo E. Giraldo Fernandez >>> Cel. 301 628 6730 >>> Colombia - Suramérica >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >>> >>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >>> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Cory Quammen >> R&D Engineer >> Kitware, Inc. >> > -- > Por favor confirmar recepción. > > Atte. > > Guillermo E. Giraldo Fernandez > Cel. 301 628 6730 > Colombia - Suramérica > -- Cory Quammen R&D Engineer Kitware, Inc.
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