[Paraview] Paraview 3.4.0 and HDF5

[Renato Elias]

HDF5 is supported through the Xdmf format. You can understand Xdmf format as
a kind of format descriptor for HDF5 files. In HDF5 format you can store
data in several different ways, in this sense, Xdmf is just a XML file
pointing to where the data actually is inside HDF5 file (or files).
Moreover, the fastest way to get your HDF5 files loaded by ParaView is
simply writing a couple of Xdmf ASCII lines. You don't need to download,
compile and install any library. For a first try, I'd suggest you simply
writing the file manually using a text editor.

Take a look in some examples provided by Kitware and I'm sure you'll easily
understand what I'm talking about.


Regards

Renato.


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Michael Jackson <
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:

> The HDF5 library is in there because of the Xdmf library that is also used.
> I don't think there are direct HDF5 readers for paraview. You can format
> your HDF5 data into Xdmf files and you may have better luck or you can write
> a custom reader for your data.
>
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> _________________________________________________________
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> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
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> On Apr 21, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Nicholas Yue wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>>  I downloaded the precompiled version of Paraview 3.4 recently from
>>
>>     http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.4/paraview-3.4.0-Linux64-x86.tar.gz
>>
>>  Doing a bit of google search, it seems that HDF5 has been supported since
>> paraview 3.3
>>
>>  When I tried to open HDF5, the drop downlist does not have HDF5 as a
>> known file type?
>>
>>  I can see libvtkhdf5.so in the lib directory so I am not sure what the
>> problem is. I have added that path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH too.
>>
>> Regards
>>
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