[Paraview] Animating simple legacy formats files

[John Biddiscombe]

Ignore this comment. I see now that a generic wrapper would handle more 
than just vtk files and allow any of the existing readers to handle 
*.001.*, *.002.* type of patterns

JB

> Perhaps time would be better spent writing a very simple vtk to vtk* 
> command line utility that could be compiled as part of the test suite 
> and integrated into the script posted earlier
>
> vtkDataSetReader->SetFileName
> Update
> GetOutput()
>
> switch type
> case : write XML poly
> case : write XML image
> case : write XML unstructured
> ...
>
> for each vtk file
>
>
>
>>>  You mentioned  using vtu files; are you sure the same method will 
>>> work for
>>> the legacy vtk format that Hom is using? I've been under the 
>>> impression that
>>> Paraview 3 doesn't support timesteps with that format, and that the 
>>> xml and
>>> legacy formats can't be mixed. I'd be happy to learn otherwise, though,
>>> since I've also been using legacy vtk files for unstructured grids 
>>> of FEM
>>> data, and could animate them in earlier Paraview versions. (My plan 
>>> so far
>>> has been to switch to the .vtu format and then use a pvd file, as 
>>> you said.)
>>
>> I am afraid it is not possible to point to .vtk files from a .pvd
>> file. A pvd file can only point to .vtX files (X being s, i, p, u
>> ...). We are working on adding  the time series animation support to
>> ParaView 3 now. It will be in 3.2 (to be release at the end of
>> summer).
>>
>> -berk
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