[Paraview] Legacy Format

[Dominik Szczerba]

there is a pdf file somewhere on the vtk webpage with a very detailed
description of the format.
--ds

Mattijs Janssens wrote:

> I use FIELD. E.g.
>
> POINT_DATA 882
> FIELD attributes 2
> p 1 882 float
> ..
> U 3 882 float
> ..
>
>
> (never tried the xml format though)
>
> Paul Wells wrote:
>
>> I am modifying a CFD code to write unstructured grid results in
>> legacy vtk format. The type of output data is quite simple: an
>> unstructured surface mesh of arbitrary polygon cells with a number of
>> scalar properties assigned to each cell.
>>
>> I have completed the geometry part no problem, but I cannot find (or
>> at least cannot understand what I have found!) a good description of
>> the file format for the data.
>>
>> Should I use repeated blocks of CELL_DATA, SCALARS. or should I use a
>> FIELD, with each scalar in one array of the field.
>> Regarding the FIELD data, I couldn't see how the data in the arrays
>> would 'know' whether it was assigned to CELLs or to POINTS.
>>
>> OR
>>
>> Should I write the whole thing in the XML format?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance
>>
>>
>
> Mattijs
>

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