Using "Programmable Source" or "Prorgammable Filter" may be the best approach. Chapter 13 in the ParaView Guide covers a great deal of how programmable filter/source work. Give it a quick read and let me know if you need any assistance.
Utkarsh On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Juan Carlos Araujo Cabarcas <ju4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I have been working with eigenstates of the wave equation and I would > like to make > videos of a time evolution. I have vectors of the form u(x,y) and I want to > simply compute: > > Y(x,y,t) = u(x,y)*cos(t), for various values of t. (or any other function of > t) > > The naĩve way of doing this (which is very expensive) is to compute > Y1(x,y,t1), Y2(x,y,t2), ... Yn(x,y,tn) and add them into the final .vtk file > by adding the time in the vector label. > > The vector u(x,y) is around 5 Mb, then by adding 100 time steps it becomes a > very big file! > > I guess that it should be possible to do the same in a clever way by using > u(x,y) and passing the operation u(x,y)*cos(t) to paraview in order to > obtain the evolution/movie, but I have not been able to see how to do this > in the manual or email list. > > Any thoughts? ... I would like this idea to work in both, the desktop and > web-based versions of paraview. > > Kind regards, > > Juan Carlos Araújo-Cabarcas. > Doktorand, Umeå Universitet > > "None of us is as clever as all of us" ... Japanese proverb > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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