[Paraview] CHOMBO file converter for PARAVIEW

[Berk Geveci]

Have you considered writing a native AMR reader for Chombo?
VTK/ParaView support AMR datasets now. I had a simple Chombo reader
working at one point but it is not production quality. The only AMR
reader in VTK is for CTH right now.  I would be happy to help.

-Berk

On 4/24/06, Burlen <burlen at apollo.sr.unh.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
>
> 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
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