[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Time-varying data reader

[Moreland, Kenneth]

It looks like there is a Wiki page describing how to use the
vtkFileSeriesReader to convert a reader to understand file series.

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series

-Ken



On 8/23/12 3:35 PM, "David E DeMarle" <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:

>To make uniformly increasing time denoted in numbered file sequences,
>encapsulate your reader in a sub proxy of a vtkFileSeriesReader. See
>readers.xml for numerous examples of that.
>
>If you need nonuniform temporal spacing or need to improve upon the
>file series reader's IO performance, make your reader supply temporal
>information and respond to time requests appropriately in
>RequestInformation and RequestData respectively. See
>vtkTimeSourceExample for an example of that.
>
>David E DeMarle
>Kitware, Inc.
>R&D Engineer
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>
>On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Joe Ping-Lin Hsiao <phsiao at cs.unc.edu>
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have written a customized reader in ParaView which reads 3D stacks.
>> Now I'd like to add the function of reading time-varying data to it,
>> so I can create animations from stacks.
>>
>> ParaView has this function already. If I convert time-varying stacks
>> and name them stack001.vtk, stack002.vtk, and etc, ParaView would
>> recognize the sequence and load them in at once, and I'd be able to
>> play the animation just by clicking the 'Play' icon.
>>
>> I wonder is there any example of how to do that to a reader?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
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