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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>The easiest way
would probably be to stuff your data into VTK Legacy File format. You can get
information about that format from the VTK User’s Guide or in the
following link.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'><a
href="http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf">http://www.vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>-Ken<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>bla bla<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 15, 2007
7:51 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Paraview] reading data
in paraview</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi I'm new to paraview,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>My goal is to make a simple animation using paraview,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>First though I want to merely create the object in paraview,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have 4 sets of data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>positions of node (x,y,z)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>connectivity (3 nodes of a element)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>current position<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>and output data<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I've been reading through the tutorials and if anyone has any
recommendations on how to open the data I would appreciate it. For
instance what reader should I use?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! <br>
<a
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48223/*http:/get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow">Play
Monopoly Here and Now</a> (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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