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

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Here's an MR that fixes the issue:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/1320

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
> 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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