[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Ply files as time history dataset

[Scott, W Alan]

You are correct, I am using sloppy terminology (as usual).

I believe we have the ability to write PLY time series, but not read PLY time series.  My user wants to read, not write.

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quammen at kitware.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:30 PM
> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> Cc: Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>; paraview-
> developers at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Ply files as
> time history dataset
> 
> Alan and Utkarsh,
> 
> I'm confused. Is this the same feature as reading a series of PLY files as a time
> series where each PLY file represents one time step?
> Isn't that supported already?
> 
> If it is a different feature, what do you mean by time slice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cory
> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> > Moving to paraview-developers
> >
> > You mean add the functionality to the ply reader, or generic to all readers?
> >
> > This is for David Peterson, the person on the phone call last week.  I think
> he has a short term (i.e., next week) need and a long term (future work)
> need.
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Utkarsh Ayachit [mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 1:22 PM
> >> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> >> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Ply files as time history dataset
> >>
> >> Not currently, no. But it should be an easy fix to make it support a
> >> temporal fileseries.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> wrote:
> >> > I have a series of ply files, each representing a slice of time.
> >> > Can ParaView read in this dataset as time slices?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Alan
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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