[Paraview] Exporting Animations from ParaView

[Kent Eschenberg]

Alessandro Bellina wrote:
> Correct me if I am
> wrong, but I am supposed to output to each one of the files the mesh
> structure (cells, nodes, offsets and type) each time I output a
> timestep? I thought I could get around this and have one file that
> describes the geometry, and have timesteps that only contain data
> values but I am not sure how this would be done. I think that this
> might have something to do with the memory problems.

Last year I modified the PVD reader to do exactly that. It wasn't trivial. We 
and some of our users make use of this feature to save disk space but 
management has not yet approved it for public release.

Kent
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center