[Paraview] [ParaView] Animation Interpolation

[Moreland, Kenneth]

PV 3.4 has a filter called Temporal Interpolation that will linearly interpolate fields and coordinates between time steps.  The one caveat is that the topology cannot change.  That is, the number of points (and their order) must always be the same and the way they are connected to cells must similarly always be the same.

-Ken


On 2/25/09 11:26 PM, "Martin Uppman" <f04mu at student.lth.se> wrote:



>> Hi ParaView users!
>>
>> I did some research on the internet how to interpolate animations and
>> found an old thred from almost 2 years ago. Back then, according to
>> the answer, interpolate animations wasn't supported in ParaView.
>> My aim is to animate particles (generated with particletracer) over
>> time,
>> in a smoother way than just update animation frame by frame. Does
someone know
>> if this is possible in PV v3.4.0? If so, how do you do it?
>>
>> Thankful for any help.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Martin Uppman, Master Student, University of Lund, Sweden
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%Old thred%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>>
>> Hi Eugene,
>> ParaView does not currently do spatial interpolation between time steps
>> in the way that you are looking for. Improvements to time varying
>> visualization are an ongoing effort for both ParaView and VTK.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Dave DeMarle
>>
>> eugenec at ualberta.ca wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have a series of data files composed of large numbers of points in
>> an unstructured grid.
>>
>> Is there any way to get Paraview to interpolate between the location
>> of each point as I progress through the data files in an animation?
>> When I try to do this (change the 'Filename' attribute in the
>> animation track), Paraview just changes data files at the keyframe,
>> and does no interpolation. What I am going for is a smooth movement of
>> the points from data file to data file to show how they are moving in
>> the simulation.
>>
>> I am running parallel Paraview 2.0, release 2, on windows XP.
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Eugene
>>
>>
>>
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