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<div>Madalena,</div>
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<div>The time units in ParaView can be anything you want them to be: minutes, seconds, epochs, jiffies, whatever. ParaView does not manage the units for time; it is an exercise for the user to ensure that all time values refer to the same scale (and bias).</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">You can control the time range (the time values where the animation starts and stops) through the animation scene object returned from GetAnimationScene(). The StartTime and EndTime fields can
be set to the start and end times you want your animation to be. The following code sets the animation range to be compatible with the keyframe times you describe below.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier; font-style: italic; color: rgb(64, 128, 128);"># get animation scene</span></p>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier;">animationScene1 </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">=</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier;"> GetAnimationScene()</span></pre>
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<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier; font-style: italic; color: rgb(64, 128, 128);"># Properties modified on animationScene1</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier;">animationScene1.StartTime = 1.0</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier;">animationScene1</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier;">EndTime </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">=</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier;"> 3</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.0</span><!--EndFragment--></pre>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you want to control the playback of the animation in terms of frames or speed, you can do so with the PlayMode and other parameters. For example, in the email below you mentioned the time value
in terms of minutes. If you wanted you keyframes to play over the course of 2 minutes (the time between T = 1min and T = 3min is 2 minutes), you can set the PlayMode to 'Real Time' and set the Duration field to 120. (The duration is measured in seconds, so
2 minutes converts to 120 seconds.) You can do that as follows:</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><!--StartFragment--><font face="Courier New">animationScene1<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span>PlayMode
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<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(186, 33, 33);"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">animationScene1</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Duration </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">=</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">120</span></span></font></pre>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alternately, you can request a certain number of frames in the animation. You cannot specify arbitrary time values for every frame, ParaView evenly spaces them between the start and end time. But
if your keyframes are evenly spaced it is easy to align them. So if you want a frame at every keyframe in the example below, you can use the following code.</div>
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<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(186, 33, 33);"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">animationScene1</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NumberOfFrames </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">=</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">3</span></pre>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In the GUI, all of these controls are in the Animation View widget. You can learn more about the animation view in the ParaView tutorial (<a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/The_ParaView_Tutorial">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/The_ParaView_Tutorial</a>),
specifically in Exercise 2.18. These tools are also documented in the ParaView User's Guide (<a href="http://www.paraview.org/paraview-downloads/download.php?submit=Download&version=v4.3&type=data&os=all&downloadFile=TheParaViewGuide-v4.3-CC-Edition.pdf">http://www.paraview.org/paraview-downloads/download.php?submit=Download&version=v4.3&type=data&os=all&downloadFile=TheParaViewGuide-v4.3-CC-Edition.pdf</a>),
specifically in Section 7.2. Once you know how to set these controls in the GUI, you can use ParaView script trace to learn the appropriate Python commands.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">-Ken</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>"Madalena S. Malhadas" <<a href="mailto:nenasantos@hotmail.com">nenasantos@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, February 27, 2015 at 3:31 AM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[EXTERNAL] Animate a solid with a specific time serie<br>
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<div>I want to animate a solid that moves acording to specific time serie (time, position). By recording the code via python shell i see that appears two simple keywords that moves the solid by proving specific values.</div>
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<div>example:</div>
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<div># get animation track</div>
<div>box1CenterTrack = GetAnimationTrack('Center', index=0, proxy=box1)</div>
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<div># create keyframes for animation track</div>
<div>keyFrame0 = CompositeKeyFrame()</div>
<div>keyFrame0.KeyTime = 0.0</div>
<div>keyFrame0.KeyValues = 60.0</div>
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<div>keyFrame1 = CompositeKeyFrame()</div>
<div>keyFrame1.KeyTime = 1.0</div>
<div>keyFrame1.KeyValues = 0.0</div>
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<div># initialize the animation track</div>
<div>box1CenterTrack.KeyFrames = [keyFrame0, keyFrame1]</div>
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<div>My doubt is the place where is possible to provide my time serie of time and position. And what is the time units of KeyTime? The KeyValues is position if i understand the sample that i run.</div>
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<div>Instead a specific time serie it is possible to provide each line of time serie as KeyTime and Kay Value, and then for the animation track call them all.</div>
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<div>Example:</div>
<div>time (minuts) position (m)</div>
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<div>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7.2 Converted in script: <span style="font-size: 12pt;">keyFrame1.KeyTime = 1.0; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">keyFrame1.KeyValues = 7.2</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
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<div>2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>9.374 <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Converted in script: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">keyFrame2.KeyTime = 2.0; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">keyFrame2.KeyValues
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<div>3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>11.548 <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Converted in script: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">keyFrame1.KeyTime = 3.0; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">keyFrame1.KeyValues
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> box1CenterTrack.KeyFrames = [keyFrame0, keyFrame1, KeyFrame 3 etc..]</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<div>Is possible to do sometinh like that? Convert my time serie of time and position to each keytime and keyvalues in script?</div>
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