[Paraview] time series

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey Randy,

There are multiple formats ParaView can read which support time series, so what you use partly depends on what format your data is written in already. 

PV has built in some facility for reading a series of sequentially-named files as a time series, but if your data is irregularly spaced in time I don't think there is a way to specify the specific time steps for each data set that way. If it's handy for you to write the individual files as XML-based VTK files, you can then write a .pvd file which tells PV what time step goes with each file. (There are a couple examples of this in the ParaViewData, which you can download using CVS as described under Current Development Distribution on the ParaView Downloads page: http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html )

If your data is in another format, check whether ParaView can already read it, or let us know and we might be able to help with how to convert it to another format or how to develop a PV reader.

Talk to you later,
-Eric

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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group


On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Randy Heiland wrote:

> Can someone point me to an example/tutorial of time series data in Paraview?  I'm not even sure of the generally accepted VTK format(s) for such data.  For my simple case, I'd like to be able to specifiy [t0, f0(x,y)], ... [tN,fN(x,y)] where f(x,y) are scalars on a regular grid.
> 
> thanks!  -Randy
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