[Paraview] replacement for ProbeLocationOverTime filter?

[Julian Cummings]

There used to be a ProbeLocationOverTime filter in Paraview 3.2.1 that
could produce an XY plot of a variable value at a selected location
versus time, but this is gone in the development version of Paraview
3.3.0.  Is there a simple way to reproduce this capability in 3.3.0? 
(I recall that the ProbeLocationOverTime was very, very slow because
ParaView would try to render the data for the entire domain and each
frame in the time sequence, instead of just reading and storing the
single data value at the selected location from each time dump.)

What I *actually* want to do is slightly more complicated than this.  I
need to plot the radial displacement of a selected point along a tube
from its original position as a function of time.  The radial position
is not a field variable, but rather can be computed from the location in
the YZ plane.  (The X axis runs along the cylindrical tube in my
geometry.)  So is there a way to do a time series of each frame versus
frame 0, select a particular point in the mesh, and produce an XY plot
of the difference in radial position versus time?

Regards, Julian C.

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