[Paraview] vtkTimeSource

[Berk Geveci]

There is some information about time support on the Wiki
http://paraview.org/Wiki/VTK/Time_Support
and the  April issue of Kitware Source
http://kitware.com/products/apr2007.html

In addition to what is described there, you need to have the following
in the reader XML:

     <DoubleVectorProperty
        name="TimestepValues"
        repeatable="1"
        information_only="1">
        <TimeStepsInformationHelper/>
        <Documentation>
          Available timestep values.
        </Documentation>
     </DoubleVectorProperty>

If you feel like condensing all of this information into one wiki
page, you could add it to the ParaView wiki. We have been working on
cleaning up the ParaView wiki. It is coming together nicely.

-berk


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:
> nevermind, I figured it out... Have to animate T separately from 0-1.
> ----------------------------------------
> Randall Hand
> Visualization Scientist
> ERDC MSRC-ITL
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I see no option for "Moving", only
>>  Analytic (checkbox)
>>  X Amplitude (edit field)
>>  Y Amplitude (edit field)
>>  Growing (checkbox)
>>
>> None of these seem to do anything as far as I can tell.  It won't let me
>> choose timesteps other than 1, and the Animation bar seems to do nothing but
>> turn it on and off.
>>
>> Using PV3.2.3 compiled from the source published on the website.
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Randall Hand
>> Visualization Scientist
>> ERDC MSRC-ITL
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:07 AM, David E DeMarle
>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It first tells the pipeline what times it can produce data for in its
>>> RequestInformation method. Later on, in its RequestData method, it
>>> figures out what time is requested, and then populates its
>>> vtkImageData outputs. So depending on what time is asked for, it will
>>> produce an output with varying number of cells, origin, and or
>>> attributes.
>>>
>>> Insert a time source, turn on moving, and animate and you should see
>>> it bouncing around.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I'm trying to develop a time-varying Source for a researcher based on
>>> > some
>>> > of his code, and hoped to use the "Time Source" as an example, but I
>>> > don't
>>> > see it actually doing anything over time.  How is this source supposed
>>> > to
>>> > work?
>>> >
>>> > ----------------------------------------
>>> > Randall Hand
>>> > Visualization Scientist
>>> > ERDC MSRC-ITL
>>> >
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