[Paraview] PV3: Animation from legacy VTK timewise files

[Berk Geveci]

As promised: http://paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series

-berk


On 8/25/07, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> A user-written reader can do this as well. It is a matter of writing
> the right xml. I am glad you asked, I will also add how you can do
> this with custom readers to the wiki.
>
> -berk
>
>
> On 8/25/07, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
> > Can a user-written reader populate the time dialog?
> >
> > I maintain several custom readers for file formats that have all the
> > times embedded in the files, invisible to PV, or that use file name
> > patterns that are not recognized.
> >
> > Kent
> > Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
> >
> > Berk Geveci wrote:
> > > This is already in the CVS ParaView. I will write a wiki page but to
> > > summarize, ParaView automatically detects certain patterns (foo_1.vtk,
> > > foo_2.vtk, foo1.vtk, foo2vtk etc) and groups them together in the file
> > > dialog. If you select the whole group, it is opened as a file series.
> > > You can then animate  and treat the VTK reader like any other time
> > > aware reader. For now, this works for legacy vtk files only.
> > >
> > > -berk
> >
>