[Paraview] h5 reader not avaialable?

[David E DeMarle]

Even with introspection, H5 is open ended enough to make writing a
fully automatic yet completely generic reader difficult.  xdmf is
generic enough, but it isn't automatic.

One way to go about making an automatic reader that should cut down on
development time would be to write a utility to produce xdmf files
from the content of arbitrary h5 files.

Alternatively, specific research areas have their own conventions
about what goes into an h5 file. It would probably be easier to write
an h5 reader that follows them to make a domain specific reader.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Pratik Mallya <pratik.mallya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pratik Mallya wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed paraview 3.10.0. , but .h5 files don't seem to be supported;
>> the option to select .h5 files is itself not available when i try to open my
>> files through the GUI. From the Wiki, it seems that paraview should have the
>> h5 reader builtin; so have i made some mistake when building? Also, is there
>> a plugin for h5 readers?
>>
>> thanks in advance.
>
> Ok. Just found out one can use xdmf files to access h5 data. Sorry for that.
>
> --
> *Pratik Mallya*
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pratik.mallya
>
> It seems that in other softwares (e.g OpenDx) there are readers which read
> hdf5 files directly. Now, I really don't have any problem with using xdmf;
> in fact , i prefer it as it gives me a better idea of how the data is
> organised  etc. But just for those who want just the functionality
> (including my advisor!) it may be worthwhile to incorporate this feature
> into Paraview, especially as it seems that hdf5 files are very well
> structured and have the metadata within them.
>
> So what i am asking is; if there is already such a reader available, please
> let me know. Otherwise, i can probably do it as a project over the summer.
>
> pratik
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