[Paraview] Input text

[Gerald Labedz]

Thanks, Kevin, I'll look into this. And this time I did reply all. Sorry for
that error, I'm new to the list.
Gerry


On 3/2/07 4:05 PM, "Kevin H. Hobbs" <hobbsk at ohiou.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:25 -0600, Gerald Labedz wrote:
>> Kevin
>>   thanks for the speedy reply. My data are points on an x-y plane,
>> "randomly" distributed. These points are items in 2D space, but each item
>> with several variables. So your suggestion of the particle reader may fit. I
>> can massage the data into that format. Integer or floats? Spaces or tabs?
>> Extension? Is this in ParaView, or do I have to get it from somewhere? I
>> guess I can figure that out. I'll be back it I'm stuck.
>> Thanks again.
>> Gerry Labedz
> 
> Please keep the discussion on the list ( CC paraview at paraview.org or
> just hit reply to all ) There are lots of people doing the same thing
> out there.
> 
> Paraview can absolutely display this sort of data. It might be a bit
> easier to process the data with VTK a bit first. The last time I tried
> getting to that reader in the paraview interface was a bit clunky.
> 
> Take a look at :
> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkParticleReader.html
> 
> I am also attaching a VTK program that reads a multi column file and
> makes points with values out of it. Other people have done similar
> things. You could adapt it in many ways.
>