[Paraview] HDF5 in paraview 3.6.1?

[David E DeMarle]

I did file it: 9376.
Bug 9252 appears related.

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 12:37 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Anton Shterenlikht
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>> Mech Eng Dept
>> Bristol University
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>> Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944
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>>
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