Re: [Paraview] Good file format for point data on a surface over 60, 000 timesteps

2017-11-20 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On 20/11/17 12:49 PM, Berk Geveci wrote: What kind of visualizations are they looking to do? It may be a good idea to treat time differently here given that it is the most dense dimensions. I am thinking of some sort of tabular format that can then be used with filtering to extract a time

Re: [Paraview] Good file format for point data on a surface over 60, 000 timesteps

2017-11-20 Thread Berk Geveci
What kind of visualizations are they looking to do? It may be a good idea to treat time differently here given that it is the most dense dimensions. I am thinking of some sort of tabular format that can then be used with filtering to extract a time step. Potentially, even a database may work

Re: [Paraview] Good file format for point data on a surface over 60, 000 timesteps

2017-11-17 Thread Samuel Key
Tyson, You won't get a common answer, but here is my $00.02. The EnSight format has a nice feature that every variable has its own file. So, each 'sample point' will have its own file. The file names can be as you want, numeric or alphabetic. The EnSight format has a geometry file, but if

[Paraview] Good file format for point data on a surface over 60, 000 timesteps

2017-11-17 Thread Tyson Whitehead
Hi, I'm trying to help one of our users (HPC center) use ParaView to work with their wind tunnel data. They have a large number of time samples (60,000) from a series of surfaces with from a small number of sample points (64). The sample points are irregular but structured as they are laid out