[Paraview] File format for primatives

[Berk Geveci]

I am not sure I understand. Do you want to be able to define a scene in
terms of primitives or do you want to be able to load primitives defined as
a collection of polygons? ParaView does not really support the concept of a
primitive bigger than a cell - polygons, tets, hexes etc etc. So even if
there is a reader for a format that supports primitives, they would have to
be converted to polygons upon load.

Maybe if you can provide us some use cases, we can help better.

Best,
-berk

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Stephen Sintay <ssintay at lanl.gov> wrote:

> I am looking for a file format that will support input of primitives such
> as sphere. The VRMl2 (*.wrl) format appears to support this, but this format
> is superceeded by X3D and I am having difficulty finding documentation for
> the old format. Their does not appear to be a paraview reader for X3D.
>
> Are there other file formats that will support primitives? Sphere, cube,
> cone, etc... Or does anyone know where to find some documentation for the
> VRML2 file format that paraview has a reader for?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
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