[Paraview] CHOMBO file converter for PARAVIEW

[Burlen]

Currently there are a number of options for visualizing CHOMBO data including 
CHOMBOVIS, and VISIT. I'd like to contribute yet another option, a file 
converter that allows the data to be used with PARAVIEW or any other 
application that can read VTK's file format. The converter's primary use is 
to construct a dataset spanning the entire problem domain using the highest 
resolution data available for a given spatial location, while avoiding 
visualization issues associated with multi resolution data. Also the 
converter can extract boxes from a specific level, allowing one to visualize 
CHOMBO's box layout, level by level. One nice feature of the converter is 
that it has a command line interface and can batch process CHOMBO's plot 
files, resulting in a numbered sequence of VTK files which PARAVIEW can 
animate easily. Currently the converter only handles 2 & 3D cell centered 
data, and only reads the HDF5 file format used by CHOMBOVIS. It has gone 
through a number of revisions, and may be usefull to those who prefer 
PARAVIEW for visualization. Development and preliminary testing have been 
done using Fedora 2 linux (single proc), HDF5 1.6.3, and VTK 4.4.2 I hope to 
make improvements in the future, and test the converter on more platforms. 
More information and tarballs can be found at 
http://quaoar.sr.unh.edu/chhdf52FlatVtk

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Burlen Loring
Space Science Center
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
University of New Hampshire
39 College Road, Durham, NH 03824
Phone: 603-862-1140