[Paraview] questions

[John Doe]

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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I am starting to evaluate paraview for a project and I am curious
>> about a few things:
>>
>> File formats:
>>
>> Does the vtk ascii format support unicode data set names?  If it
>> doesn't, is there a format that does?
>
> I am afraid that you will find VTK (the underlying computing layer of
> ParaView) and ParaView lacking quite a bit in supporting anything but
> ASCII. Can you elaborate a bit more what you need? Do you need the
> whole user interface to support unicode or just the dataset names? And
> what do you mean by "dataset name"? Names of the field variables?

My program uses utf-8.  I want to allow users to use symbols for their
data, such as psi (u03c8) for potential, and script E (u2130) for
electric field.

I tried this with an ascii format file, and the names came up as
random characters.  I would be happy to write out in whatever encoding
and file format in order to be able to have this feature.

>> Solution data on 2D meshes:
>>
>> Does paraview allow you to display the magnitude of the solution data
>> as the third dimension?  If this is a filter, what is it called?
>
> You mean like a carpet plot?

I don't know what that is.  I would want to plot potential or the log
of carrier density as the z coordinate.

Thanks,

Juan

>
> -berk
>