[Paraview] newbie: ascii to vector to gen. glyphs

[Moreland, Kenneth]

The best representation for your data is a poly data set with vertex cells, which can be a single point.  An unstructured grid, which also supports vertex cells, is fine, too.

The native VTK file formats provide reasonable ASCII representations of this data.  You can download documentation from the Wiki: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Image:VTK-File-Formats.pdf

If you already have your data in a text file with the data for each point on a line, you can use the csv reader to read this information as a table (you can change the comma delimiter to something else).  You can then use the table to points filter to convert this to geometric data.

-Ken


On 10/22/09 9:44 PM, "Ned Gardiner" <ned.gardiner at noaa.gov> wrote:

Hello,

I've been working with a Maya animator with no success to visualize adcp data from the Congo River. It's the most amazing dataset, and I want to share it with others through visualization

I'd like to represent my x,y,z and velocity fields (delta-x, delta-y, delta-z) in paraview.

The data were collected irregularly so can not be represented as structured points.

I thought I'd use an unstructured grid, but my data are not "cells" but are rather points with velocity associated with each point.

My questions: what data type should I use? Could someone provide an example data set or script to point out how to write the recommended data type?

Thanks,
Ned Gardiner



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