[Paraview] Writing binary VTK

Lester Anderson lester_anderson1963 at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 31 01:28:59 EDT 2008


Hi Ken
 
Thanks for the info. So is there an easy way to take the ascii data and make it into a binary file (big-endian or ortherwise), or is it more involved? Basically I have my data already it just needs converting.
 
Cheers
 
Lester> From: kmorel at sandia.gov> To: lester_anderson1963 at hotmail.com; paraview at paraview.org> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:44:32 -0600> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Writing binary VTK> > You have the basic idea for binary legacy VTK files. I think the one caveat> is that the data needs to be written in big-endian format. (Someone correct> me if I got that wrong.)> > I'm not sure what you mean by the column vs. sequential style. I think the> data parts in ASCII data treat all whitespace the same, so you should be> able to order the data in as many columns as you like.> > -Ken> > > On 10/30/08 1:53 PM, "Lester Anderson" <lester_anderson1963 at hotmail.com>> wrote:> > > Hello all> >> > I have got a really big dataset that I want to have in a binary format. I have> > the header information all sorted now, but want to know how to convert the> > data part to binary. From what I understand the binary VYK structure is> > basically the same as ascii except the data part is binary.> >> > On a second point, with an ascii VTK how can I change the data from a huge> > long column of data to the more sequential style shown in examples?> >> > I work on a PC> >> > thanks> >> > Lester> >> >> > For the best free wallpapers from MSN Click here!> > <http://wallpapers.msn.com/?ocid=[B001MSN42A0716B]>> > > **** Kenneth Moreland> *** Sandia National Laboratories> ***********> *** *** *** email: kmorel at sandia.gov> ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919> *** fax: (505) 845-0833> > > 
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