[Paraview] Fastest way of getting Max/Min from multiple files.

[Burlen Loring]

You mentioned saving processing time. if you're doing this more than 
once on a given timeseries you could use a custom field data array to 
store the min and max for each array that you care about. If these field 
data arrays aren't present, then you'd compute them and rewrite the 
first datafile in the series adding the new 2 value arrays. If the 
arrays are present then use the pre-computed values. Assuming that you 
don't have another reason for always reading/processing the entire time 
series this could save you quite a bit of I/O overhead.

On 08/19/2013 12:18 PM, Brian Curtis wrote:
> I have code that reads in multiple .vtk (legacy VTK) binary files. 
> Currently I am looping through viewtimes and grabbing the range and 
> saving the value if it's higher than the previous value (and lower..). 
> I've looked quite a bit through tutorials and other threads and 
> haven't found anything to this sort, but In order to save processing 
> time, is there a simple way to grab a range for all time steps and not 
> each file one by one?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
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