[Paraview] Animating 100's of polydata files

Robert Maynard RobertJMaynard at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 20:35:23 EDT 2008


You should be able to use the VCR toolbar to step forward / behind in the
animation, or just play it all. There is a a good tutorial on animation at
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:AnimationTutorial

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Karl Merkley <karl at elemtech.com> wrote:

> I have several hundred polydata files (currently in .vtp format).  I am
> primarily interested in seeing how the grid structure changes over time in
> each of the files.  The  files are named with a sequential number.    How
> would I go about reading the files and animating this kind of morphing grid
> in Paraview?   I opened the filename..vtp and it displays the first file and
> the Pipeline Browser shows the object as filename* but I don't know how to
> get to the next file in this structure.
>
>  I am currently writing the files using a vtkXMLPolyDataWriter so if there
> is an easier way to write the files for animation, I can change that also.
>
>  Thanks,
>        Karl
>
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