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

[Cory Quammen]

Cool, I thought that was already supported, but indeed it was not.

Cory

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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Cory Quammen
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