[Paraview] particle tracking

[Berk Geveci]

I don't think this answers Pei's question. To my knowledge the
temporal stream tracer (i.e. particle tracker) works only for
time-dependent data. Am I wrong? To animate particles in a
steady-state flow field, I'd think that you would generate streamlines
and then somehow animate particles along those. I can't think of
anything that would do this out-of-box but writing a  filter that does
this would be pretty easy. Is this something more than a few users
would want?

-berk

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:22 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Pei-Ying,
>
> You may want to try ParaView Meshless
> (https://twiki.cscs.ch/twiki/bin/view/ParaViewMeshless). It is a
> version of ParaView with the cutting edge of John Biddiscombe's
> particle tracking work in it. Some of those features will be/have been
> integrated into the main paraview code, but I can not vouch for when
> that will happen.
>
> cheers,
> Dave DeMarle
>
>
> 2008/12/25 Pei-Ying Hsieh <phsieh2005 at yahoo.com>:
>> Dear PVers:
>>
>> I have a steady state flow field.  I am wondering if PV can do particle
>> tracking animation.
>>
>> what I am looking for is similar to pathlines, but, instead of showing the
>> lines, I would like to do an animation of seed particles "flowing" through
>> the flow field.  Is this possible?
>>
>> Thanks! and wish everyone here a Happy New Year!
>>
>>
>> Pei
>>
>>
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