<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Alex,<br><br></div>Again, could you specify how you are loading your files?<br></div>If you open them as a file series, then your data should be considered as temporal and the filter should work.<br></div>See <a href="https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series">https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series</a><br><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Joachim Pouderoux</b><font size="2">, <font size="1">PhD</font></font><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="1"><i>Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team</i></font><br><b><font size="1"><a href="http://www.kitware.fr" target="_blank">Kitware SAS</a></font></b><br></blockquote>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-12-01 14:11 GMT-04:00 Alex Barrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abarrie@gmail.com" target="_blank">abarrie@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was able to find this thread that mentions that maybe the input data set needs to have a DATA_TIME_STEPS key, but I am not sure how to specify this with the point3d data.<div><a href="https://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2016-February/036211.html" target="_blank">https://public.kitware.com/<wbr>pipermail/paraview/2016-<wbr>February/036211.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is there a way just to use whatever mechanism the animate functionality uses? </div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Alex Barrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abarrie@gmail.com" target="_blank">abarrie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes, I have one file per timestep and each file is a list of points, X, Y, Z, C with one point per line. I am loading it with the 'Point3D' input. <div>Thanks!<span class="m_-6247527640454568694HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Alex</font></span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_-6247527640454568694HOEnZb"><div class="m_-6247527640454568694h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Joachim Pouderoux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joachim.pouderoux@kitware.com" target="_blank">joachim.pouderoux@kitware.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Alex,<br><br></div>Could you specify how is your data split over time? Do you have one file per timestep? How do you load your data with ParaView?<span class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Joachim<br></font></span><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056m_2084268675836492139m_4369585237367947036gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Joachim Pouderoux</b><font size="2">, <font size="1">PhD</font></font><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="1"><i>Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team</i></font><br><b><font size="1"><a href="http://www.kitware.fr" target="_blank">Kitware SAS</a></font></b><br></blockquote>
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<br></span><div><div class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056h5"><div class="gmail_quote">2017-11-30 9:55 GMT-04:00 Alex Barrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abarrie@gmail.com" target="_blank">abarrie@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks, I see it now - I missed it because it wasn't in the "Temporal" tab. <div><br></div><div>When I apply this filter, however, I get an error about a missing DATA_TIME_STEPS information key. Is this something I can specify or does it have to be in the raw data somehow?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Alex</div><div><br></div></div><div class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056m_2084268675836492139m_4369585237367947036HOEnZb"><div class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056m_2084268675836492139m_4369585237367947036h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Joachim Pouderoux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joachim.pouderoux@kitware.com" target="_blank">joachim.pouderoux@kitware.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Alex,<br><br></div>I think here the filter "Temporal Particles to Pathlines" should do the trick.<br><br></div>Best,<br></div>Joachim<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056m_2084268675836492139m_4369585237367947036m_3071357794628958328m_-4363036260249438214gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Joachim Pouderoux</b><font size="2">, <font size="1">PhD</font></font><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="1"><i>Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team</i></font><br><b><font size="1"><a href="http://www.kitware.fr" target="_blank">Kitware SAS</a></font></b><br></blockquote>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056m_2084268675836492139m_4369585237367947036m_3071357794628958328h5">2017-11-29 14:33 GMT-04:00 Alex Barrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abarrie@gmail.com" target="_blank">abarrie@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-6247527640454568694m_1435370105847814056m_2084268675836492139m_4369585237367947036m_3071357794628958328h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I have animated particles which are imported from point data (x,y,z). I want to add a particle trace, but I am not sure what to put for the 'seed'. I am not using a vector field, but rather just a list of particle positions that updates over time. How can I just add a trace to each particle in the list? </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks,<br>Alex</div></div>
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