[Paraview] Animating trajectories of points

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Janessa,

ParaView should be able to read in a series of csv files as a time series. I just verified that when I have a sequence of csv files, ParaView treats it as a time series and plays through them.

For whatever reason, the image you originally attached to the email did not come through to me, so I cannot see exactly what you are doing. One problem could be that the names of the csv files have to follow a numbering convention so that ParaView knows to treat them as a sequence. Simply having them with sequential number names should do the trick (e.g. points1.csv, points2.csv, points3.csv, etc.). If ParaView understands the numbering convention, then the files should be grouped together in the file browser.

-Ken

From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Janessa Tran
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:45 PM
To: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Animating trajectories of points

Hi,

This is my first time using ParaView and I am trying to get an animation of a trajectory of points. I have the data stored in separate csv files (one file for each time step). When I upload the data into ParaView, it is all grouped together and I can do it all at once. I am able to use the filter Table to Points to see the outcome of all the points together. What i am looking to do, however, is to animate a trajectory of the points over time.

Do you know how I should approach doing this? I assumed that i would be able to click "play" and it would work once I uploaded the data, however, this does not seem to be doing anything.

Thank you very much in advance!

This is what I have so far:

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- Janessa
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