[Paraview] Input text

[Gerald Labedz]

Kevin, thanks! Moving forward.
Gerry Labedz
Motorola



On 3/16/07 9:12 AM, "Kevin  H. Hobbs" <hobbsk at ohiou.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 09:22 -0500, Gerald Labedz wrote:
>> Kevin
>>   OK, I confess I'm still stuck. All I'm wanting to do is read an ascii file
>> in the form x(n), y(n), z(n), a1(n), a2(n), . . .  Where xyz are spatial and
>> an are other attributes for colorizing or other viz tricks.
>>   I really don't know where to go with the c++ VTK code you sent me (being
>> new to this, and not even having the VTK documentation).
> 
> The C++/vtk code I sent you reads any 4 columns of a file like yours,
> and then writes it out as a vtp file you can read with paraview.
> 
>>   I looked at the particle viewer web page you sent me to, which also left
>> me ice cold -- not knowing what to do. Namely, how do I get the vtk particle
>> reader to work from ParaView?
> 
> Just pick 4 of your columns and put them into one file :
> 
> awk < your_file.txt '{print $x, $y, $z, $v}' > new_file.csv
> 
> The paraview CSV reader should be able to read this file.
>