[Paraview] HDF5 data format

[Jean Favre]

On 14, Oct 2009 11:49 PM, psli <psli at astro.berkeley.edu> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>
>I hear about paraview from the HDF5 website software list that paraview
>can
>handle HDF5 data. I installed a windows version of paraview but it
>doesn't
>recognize HDF5 data. Is it a mistake at HDF5 website that paraview is
>not
>supposed to handle HDF5 data? Or is there an HDF5 reader that paraview
>can
>use to read HDF5 data?

you can read HDF5 data, by first writing a light-weight description of
it in the XDMF format, in order to describe the contents of the HDF5
data. Examples of xdmf files ready for input to ParaView can be found on
the following site:

http://www.xdmf.org


Jean--
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre