[Paraview] Questions about Paraview from David Van Vliet

[SamuelKey]

David,

I am not entirely qualified to answer your questions.
I am a relatively new user. My experience is that if
you will meet Paraview halfway, ParaView will provide
you with outstanding post-processing. The time spent
writing  *.pvd *.vtu *.pvtu etc files will pay huge dividends.

I checked the web and found free kriging packages, so
if you are willing to generate an intermediate grid of display 
points (with data) you can supply these to ParaView via one
 the XML-based vtk file formats. 

I have attached a *.pdf file that discribes the various vtk-based 
input-file options.  I must caution you, the document is concise, 
precise, complete and says it only once (and not where you 
might expect to find it as you are coding a file writer IMHO).

Writing a vtk-based input file for ParaView to read does
indeed allow you to enter one-dimensional line segments
(vtk_line or vtk_poly_line on page 9). ParaView does 
expect you to supply data with these lines if you want it
to display something other than the grid itself.

If you code in Fortran-90/95, I can send you (off line) example
coding to create vtk-based files for ParaView to read.

Regards,

Sam Key

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Van Vliet (Personal)" <dvanvliet at gto.net>
To: <paraview at paraview.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: [Paraview] Questions about Paraview


> Hello folks
> 
> I'm trying to evaluate the potential to use Paraview to visualize water
> resources and hydrogeology data in 3D.  Can anybody help me with the
> following questions?
> 
> a)  is there any way for paraview to import/display topographic base maps
> (i.e. roads, streams) provided in a format such as AutoCAD DWG or DXF?
> b)  Does Paraview include any 2D and 3D interpolation routines (i.e.
> kriging) that would allow me to visualize randomly scattered data?
> c)  Is the VTK format suitable for me to import and visualize
> one-dimensional line segments?
> d)  has anybody out there use Paraview for this type of application?
> 
> thanks,
> David Van Vliet
> 
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