[Paraview] Viewing meshless data

[Burlen]

not sure about "best". Minimally you could glyph the points with some arrows 
to indicate flow direction and magnitude(assuming you have vector data). I'm 
guessing thats going to be a mess though. For other visualizations such as 
stream lines you will want to generate geometry for your dataset. Delaunay 
filter is one way to do this but it's often prohibitively slow on 3d data. 
so. you most likely want to write your data out with the cells and grid 
structure in the first place. If you do that (so that your data sets have 
both point data and cells) all the filters in paraview will work for you.

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 01:17 pm, Parker, Andrew (UK) wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Very new to this.  Want to know what the best format to work with would
> be if I wanted to view meshless cfd data, i.e. it is just points in 3D
> with flow field data??  Is this possible in paraview?  If so any
> pointers would be useful.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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Burlen Loring
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