[Paraview] Ensight Particle format problem

[Viksit Gaur]

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out how the Ensight particle file format works 
(writing a program for the file in ASCII or Binary should be easier than 
figuring it out how it works!). In the documentation, it is given as the 
Ensight Measured/Particle file format - but I'm not sure if this means 
its a .Geo file, or a scalar/vector file.

My question basically is - how would such a format be represented?
What I do currently is: (taken from the manual)

viksit_ascii.case
--
FORMAT
type: ensight gold

GEOMETRY
model:  1       viksit_ascii.geo


and

viksit_ascii.geo
--

This is a simple measured geometry file
particle coordinates
7
101 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00
102 1.00000E+00 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00
103 1.00000E+00 1.00000E+00 0.00000E+00
104 0.00000E+00 1.00000E+00 0.00000E+00
205 5.00000E-01 0.00000E+00 2.00000E+00
206 5.00000E-01 1.00000E+00 2.00000E+00
307 0.00000E+00 0.00000E+00-1.50000E+00


But loading it into Paraview doesn't make it appear. Could anyone shed a 
light on as to why not - What am I doing wrong?

I had 2 further questions -
a) Once I do get these points to show up, how would I assign say, a 3d 
sphere glyph or similar to each of these points? Am I right in assuming 
that this can be done by the materials format?

b) If I had to limit these particles in a sort of a box (say a cube with 
these particles moving about) - how would I achieve the bounding such 
that they don't move out of that particular set of coordinates?)

Thanks,
Viksit


-- 
Viksit Gaur
Deptt. of Computer Science
Yale University

me at viksit dot com
http://viksit.com