[Paraview] particle motion animation - can someone help?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Since your csv files don't have any header column, make sure that you
uncheck the "Have Headers" check box on the reader panel.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Pei-Ying Hsieh <phsieh2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Paraview user group:
>
> I would like to plot/animate the motion of particles.  The particles were
> initially randomly distributed within a Xmin Ymin Xmax Ymax domain.  The
> particles are then start to move toward a magnetic source.  I can done
> calculating the positions of each partcile at each time step.  What format
> should I use so that paraview can handle ploting/animate the positions of
> the particles? (the particle sizes are also randomly distributed, it will be
> nice to show the particle size based on the same scaling).
>
> I made up 10 csv files each with x,y,z,d.  Each csv corresponds to each time
> step.  I am using paraview 3.6.1 (MS windows version).
>
> the filenames are output1.csv, output2.csv, output3.csv....
>
> When I first opened the files, I chose output..csv (I think that this will
> open all the csv files).  Hit apply, I got output* in the pipeline browser.
> Then, I did filter/TableToPoints and chose the X Column, Y Column, Z Column.
> Hit apply.
> Then did "Split Horizontal" to create a new display window and select "3D
> View".
> Then, Filter/Glyph. change Glyph type to sphere, change scale mode to
> scalar, hit apply.
>
> This got me all the particles with correct size.
> However, when I press "Play" button to animate, I got the following error:
>
> ERROR: In ..\..\..\src\VTK\Graphics\vtkTableToPolyData.cxx, line 111
> vtkTableToPolyData (06CC5D88): Failed to locate  the columns to use for the
> point coordinates
> ERROR: In ..\..\..\src\VTK\Filtering\vtkExecutive.cxx, line 757
> vtkCompositeDataPipeline (06CC6028): Algorithm vtkTableToPolyData(06CC5D88)
> returned failure for request: vtkInformation (06C661F0)
>   Debug: Off
>   Modified Time: 314249
>   Reference Count: 1
>   Registered Events: (none)
>   Request: REQUEST_DATA
>   FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0
>   FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0
>   ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> If I open each .csv file indivisually and go through the steps above
> (without the animation), I got a nice plot of the particles.  So, each csv
> file seems to be fine.
>
> Did I miss any step so that animation does not work?
>
> Pei
>
> I attached the csv file I made up so that you can check if the csv files are
> not correctly formatted.
>
>
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