[Paraview] Convert VTU for Arctic Viewer

Sebastien Jourdain sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com
Thu Sep 21 14:22:39 EDT 2017


Just download ParaView binary and use pvpython. You will have everything
required meaning both vtk and paraview side of things.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Chris Marsh <chris.marsh at usask.ca> wrote:

> Hi Sebastien,
> This is very helpful, thanks!
>
> Current hangup is that vtk.web.* is not available. I've installed vtk
> --with-python via homebrew (I use vtk successfully from python regularly).
> However the web components do not seem available. Googling isn't helping
> me. Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> On 21 September 2017 at 11:31, Sebastien Jourdain <
> sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Thanks for your interest. The following Python scripts provide an example
>> on how to generate such dataset.
>>
>> https://github.com/Kitware/arctic-viewer/blob/master/scripts
>> /examples/paraview/mpas/raw-probe-flat-earth.py
>> https://github.com/Kitware/arctic-viewer/blob/master/scripts
>> /examples/vtk/mpas/raw-probe-flat-earth.py
>>
>> Moreover, depending on your data structure, the way you want to iterate
>> through time may differ.
>> The example below show the can dataset with a geometry export. But at
>> least, it also show how to control time in ParaView when the reader is Time
>> aware.
>>
>> https://github.com/Kitware/arctic-viewer/blob/master/scripts
>> /examples/paraview/samples/VTKGeometry-can.py
>>
>> Let me know if you need additional information regarding that script and
>> what it is doing.
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Chris Marsh <chris.marsh at usask.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a set of vtu files that represent a time series of spatial data.
>>> I would like to visualize it via the arctic viewer. Ultimately, I'd like
>>> something similar to the Flat earth probing example given here (
>>> http://tonic.kitware.com/). However it's unclear how to convert a vtu
>>> to the required json format.
>>>
>>> The documentation is lacking in this regard and the example data is not
>>> helpful for reverse engineering what is needed.
>>>
>>> Would appreciate any insight.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Chris
>>>
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