[Paraview] A bunch of novice user questions

[Paulo Alexandre Neves]

Dear all.

My name is Paulo Neves and I am starting to use Paraview. I already did the great Kenneth Moreland tutorial.
I downloaded and installed Paraview on a Mac OS X machine through the binary dmg, running in standalone mode. Version is 3.8.1.

Here are my questions:
When trying to open a .raw data set, such as the one in attach, I get errors, like
ERROR: In /Users/partyd/Kitware/ParaView-3.8/src/VTK/IO/vtkImageReader.cxx, line 184
vtkMPIImageReader (0x126f74e70): File operation failed: 18446744073709512510, ext: 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32

The first thing that strikes me is where is /Users/partyd directory! I cannot find this on my machine.
Second the dataset is 32x32x32, 8bit so why the errors?

This leads me to another question: where is the source VTK files (like vtkImageReader) on my machine? Do I need to download the source and compile it to have access to this? Later on I would like to create my own algorithms, so I will need to extend Paraview. Isn't the best way to write such code through VTK?

Sorry for my newbie questions and thanks for your patience!

Kind regards,
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Paulo Alexandre Neves
Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Castelo Branco
Unidade Técnico-Cientifica de  Informática
http://di.est.ipcb.pt
E-mail: pneves at ipcb dot pt
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)
E-mail: pneves at co dot it dot pt



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