[Paraview] particle animation

[Berk Geveci]

> I just realized that I still need to know the format of the csv file.  Can I
> use:
> x,y,z,d (where d is the diameter of the particle)?  How will paraview know
> which colum to use to scale particle size (ie, d)?

Yes, you can. You tell the Table to Points filter which columns to use
for x, y and z. Then you tell the glyph filter to use the remaining
column for scaling. Give it a try, you'll see.

> I will have 1000 time steps.  Does it mean that I have to load the csv files
> indivisually?  Is there a possibility of using vtu/pvd format (still need to
> know the vtu/pvd format though)?

ParaView can load a file series of csv files. If you  name them as
<name>0.csv, <name>1.csv, ...., ParaView will give you the option of
opening the whole series.

-berk

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Pei-Ying Hsieh <phsieh2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, Berk,
>
> I just realized that I still need to know the format of the csv file.  Can I
> use:
> x,y,z,d (where d is the diameter of the particle)?  How will paraview know
> which colum to use to scale particle size (ie, d)?
>
> I will have 1000 time steps.  Does it mean that I have to load the csv files
> indivisually?  Is there a possibility of using vtu/pvd format (still need to
> know the vtu/pvd format though)?
>
> Pei
>
> ________________________________
> From: Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
> To: Pei-Ying Hsieh <phsieh2005 at yahoo.com>; ParaView Mailing List
> <paraview at paraview.org>
> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 9:13:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] particle animation
>
> The simplest thing to do is to create a series is to create a series
> of csv files. Like foo1.csv, foo2.csv etc. Then you load this series
> into ParaView. You apply Table to Points and Glyph (make sure to
> switch to 3D view), then you hit play.
>
> Note: ParaView does not support 2D data natively. You will have to add
> a fake z value.
>
> -berk
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Pei-Ying Hsieh <phsieh2005 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> HI, Berk,
>>
>> Sorry that I did not make it clear.  I meant animation.  The particles
>> move
>> under magnetic field.  I calculated new particle positions after each time
>> step.  I would like to show the movement of the particles.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Pei
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
>> To: Pei-Ying Hsieh <phsieh2005 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 8:30:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] particle animation
>>
>> When you say "plot the particles as a function of time", do you mean
>> an animation or the paths of the particles in 2D?
>>
>> -berk
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Pei-Ying Hsieh <phsieh2005 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Dear ParaView experts:
>>>
>>> I did a simple calculations of particle motion under magnetic fields
>>> using
>>> perl.  I would like to plot the particles as a function of time.
>>> What format should I use to save for paraview to be able to read in?  The
>>> particles has attributes of: size, time, coordinate in X, coordinate in
>>> Y,
>>> and coordinate in Z.  The particles were initially randomly distributed
>>> within a (Xmin, Ymin, Xmax, Ymax) domain.  There is no mesh required.
>>>
>>> Is there any examples/tutorials on something like this?
>>>
>>> It will be highly appreciated if someone can point to me a direction.
>>>
>>> Pei
>>>
>>>
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