[Paraview] is there a way to triangulate data in Paraview?

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Oh.  I see I misread the original message a bit.  It is asking for a reader, not a writer.

Yes, this could be a very simple writer plugin.

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominik Szczerba [mailto:domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:40 AM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth
> Cc: Alejandro Aragon; paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] is there a way to triangulate data in Paraview?
>
> You can easilly do it with a custom writer plugin, can you not?
> [DS]
>
> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> > That's not supported yet, but it should be in the future.  It basically
> just requires some readers and/or filters, but I would like to see better
> support for tables in ParaView before solving this in earnest.  This
> feature request is more-or-less addressed by bug #5016.
> >
> > -Ken
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-
> bounces at paraview.org]
> >> On Behalf Of Alejandro Aragon
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:40 AM
> >> To: paraview at paraview.org
> >> Subject: [Paraview] is there a way to triangulate data in Paraview?
> >>
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> Many of you may know Tecplot. One of the nice features about this
> >> program, is that you can dump raw data in a file with no format at
> >> all, then it takes the first three columns as the X, Y and Z
> >> coordinates and the following columns as separate variables and you
> >> can have as many of them as you want. Then you can triangulate the
> >> data and automatically you can obtain contour plots and so on.
> >>
> >> I was wondering if this can also be done in Paraview and how. I've
> >> been using the .vtu format so I'm used to the output of point and cell
> >> data. I searched for a while for something similar in Paraview but I
> >> found nothing. Can anyone mention if this can be done?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> aa
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