[Paraview] time series with Xdmf-Files
Natalie Happenhofer
nataliehapp at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 12 03:20:46 EST 2008
Well, Paraview does not recognize my data as a Time Series. Here is the .xmf file:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []>
<Xdmf>
<Domain>
<Grid Name="TimeSeries" GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal">
<Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.00" />
<Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" >
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00211.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00211.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.01" />
<Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" >
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00212.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00212.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.02"/>
<Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" >
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00213.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00213.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.03"/>
<Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" >
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00214.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00214.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.04"/>
<Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" >
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00215.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00215.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.05"/>
<Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" >
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00216.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00216.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Curvilinear" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.06"/>
<Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions ="641 390" >
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem Name="Coordinates" DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 3" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00217.h5:/Curvilinear/Coordinates
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute Name="Fc" Type="Scalar" Center="Node">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="249990 1" Format="HDF">
c2d-T358-5500K-wide_00217.h5:/Curvilinear/Fc
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Domain>
</Xdmf>
if anyone sees the error.. thx.
NH
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:36:32 -0500
> From: dave.demarle at kitware.com
> To: nataliehapp at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] time series with Xdmf-Files
> CC: paraview at paraview.org
>
> That should be all you need to do. Check if the Information tab of the
> Object Inspector panel for the reader shows any time steps. If the
> Time section, at the bottom of the page, has no index and value pairs
> in it, then paraview doesn't recognize that the data is time varying.
> If that is the case you might want to post you xmf file to the list
> and perhaps someone can see what is wrong.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Natalie Happenhofer
> <nataliehapp at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > This might be a stupid question.. but I have now such a .xmf file with the
> > temporal collection, but how do I play it? I load it into paraview, and then
> > I press the "play" button above, but I can´t see anything moving..
> >
> > thx,
> > NH
> >
> > ________________________________
> > CC: paraview at paraview.org
> > From: emonson at cs.duke.edu
> > To: nataliehapp at hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Paraview] time series with Xdmf-Files
> > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:38:31 -0500
> >
> > Hello Natalie,
> > I don't know if this will be helpful (since you already have all of those
> > XMF files), but the standard way of doing the time animation with Xdmf and
> > ParaView is to have all of the time steps in one XMF file as a "temporal
> > collection". Each time step in the file could refer to a separate HDF5 file
> > for its data. There are ways of enabling animation for a series of files
> > using a time-unaware reader in ParaView, but I think it would be easier to
> > write a script to combine all of your XMF files together into the time-aware
> > format that is supported by Xdmf.
> > I'll put an example below.
> > -Eric
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Eric E Monson
> > Duke Visualization Technology Group
> > ==================
> > <Xdmf>
> > <Domain Name="MSI">
> > <Grid Name="CellTime" GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal">
> > <Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform">
> > <Time Value="0.00" />
> > <Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="100">
> > </Topology>
> > <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3" Format="HDF">
> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter00/cells/position
> > </DataItem>
> > </Geometry>
> > <Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="CellType">
> > <DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1" Format="HDF">
> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter00/cells/numtype
> > </DataItem>
> > </Attribute>
> > </Grid>
> > <Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform">
> > <Time Value="0.01" />
> > <Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="100">
> > </Topology>
> > <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3" Format="HDF">
> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter01/cells/position
> > </DataItem>
> > </Geometry>
> > <Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="CellType">
> > <DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1" Format="HDF">
> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter01/cells/numtype
> > </DataItem>
> > </Attribute>
> > </Grid>
> > <Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform">
> > <Time Value="0.02" />
> > <Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="100">
> > </Topology>
> > <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
> > <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3" Format="HDF">
> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter02/cells/position
> > </DataItem>
> > </Geometry>
> > <Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="CellType">
> > <DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1" Format="HDF">
> > fiber_run3.h5:/iter02/cells/numtype
> > </DataItem>
> > </Attribute>
> > </Grid>
> > </Grid>
> > </Domain>
> > </Xdmf>
> >
> > On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Natalie Happenhofer wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> > I have a lot of Xdmf - Files which I would like to animate as a video in
> > paraview. For every Time Step I have a separate .xmf -File and a
> > corresponding .h5 file. Does anyone know how to do that?
> >
> > thx a lot,
> > NH
> >
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