[Paraview] vtu file format

[Dominik Szczerba]

on vtk.org in tech docs there is a pdf decribing the vtk formats. does
it not provide answers to your questions?
--dsz

Thierry Dubuis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I made the test and it's the same thing in Little and Big Endian.
> I made another test, in Little Endian I add the size of the data block
> at the beginnig of this block In the PointData and CellData
> Paraview load my case and the results are Ok.
> 
> Is it the same organization in the Coordinates, Connectivity, Offset and
> Types Blocks ?
> 
> Bests regards,
> Thierry Dubuis
> 
> Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> 
>> I though you said you had used little endian when producing your files.
>> If you get errors the first thing I would try is swapping bytes to big
>> endian arrangement.
>> --dsz
>>
>> Thierry Dubuis wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Why ?
>>>
>>> With the big endian I need no size information ?
>>>
>>> Thierry Dubuis
>>>
>>> Dominik Szczerba wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>> VTK uses big endian
>>>> --dsz
>>>>
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>>>>> So first I try to write my data on PC in Little Endian and crypted in
>>>>> Base64.
>>>>> When I try to load it in Paraview 2.5 I have an error, I debug and
>>>>> find
>>>>> Paraview reads 4 characters which is the size of the following binary
>>>>> block ???
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a doc which more precision about this file format than the vtk
>>>>> file
>>>>> formats for VTK Version 4.2 (where I don't find the information about
>>>>> this block size) ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Thierry Dubuis
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Dominik Szczerba, Dr.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi