[Paraview] Particle Simulation and Paraview modification? - Particles question

[Viksit Gaur]

Hello Berk,

Sorry for the late response - I was away for a while.

Berk Geveci wrote:
> What information do you have to extact a particular particle? Are they
> labeled? Do they have ids?

As for your question, I have X,Y coordinates of the particles, for each 
time step. The particles don't have any labels or IDs - the data format 
itself is a rather simple text file - a columnar layout, which uses 
spaces as delimiting characters.

No. of Particles
No. of Timesteps
X Y (Step1)
X Y (Step2)

.
.
.


Cheers,
Viksit


> 
> On 1/8/06, Viksit Gaur <vik.list.vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm developing a particle simulation system for some physics
>>experiments, and I'm exploring VTK and Paraview to do so. Till now,
>>the extensive (and excellent) documentation available for both leads
>>me to believe that since both are being used extensively, they should
>>solve my purpose.
>>
>>That said, I wanted to gauge an opinion on the method I've thought I
>>should use -
>>
>>The simulation is of certain particles whose coordinates are given in
>>time steps, and they need to be represented by glyphs - spheres,
>>boxes, and so on. I would then like to be able to see these particles
>>move over a given time period, and have the ability to track a certain
>>particle through its sequences.
>>
>>How I think I could go about it, is:
>>We use a custom format to represent the simulation data, and thus I
>>would need to create a VTKReader for this. Next, this reader has to be
>>included with Paraview, and data can be loaded. The next part is what
>>I'm unsure about - to be able to zero in and select a particular
>>particle from the simulation, does Paraview source need to be
>>modified? Or can i write TCL scripts to do so? Or, better still, is
>>this functionality provided already?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Viksit
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Viksit Gaur
Deptt. of Computer Science
Yale University

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