[Paraview] HDF5 in paraview 3.6.1?

[David E DeMarle]

Paraview generally treats raw binary files as completely regular data.
You do not need an indexing/header file in this case. When you
instantiate the raw reader it asks the user what the extent, spacing,
data type, endianness etc are.

Xdmf can index into binary files generically. However this capability
was added to the XDMF library after paraview 3.6, and I do not know if
even the PV interface to XDMF in the development head allows that.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Anton Shterenlikht
<mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:13:02PM -0500, David E DeMarle wrote:
>> ParaView requires an xdmf file the help it interpret the contents of
>> hdf5 files. See www.xdmf.org for an explanation of the xdmf format.
>
> I see..
>
> And what about raw binary files, how is the data
> interpreted? Do I also need to supply some plain
> text data description to go with it?
>
> many thanks
> anton
>
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