[Paraview] need book to understand vtk-file formats?

[Michael Jackson]

You are looking for a file called VTK-file-formats.pdf which explains the "legacy" file formats. There are some XML based file formats that might also be useful. Just depends what the simulation is writing.

http://www.vtk.org/VTK/img/file-formats.pdf

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Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
mike.jackson at bluequartz.net              www.bluequartz.net

On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Torsten Lange wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I asked a student to get familiar with vtk formats to later write scripts to 
> extract geometry and scalar/property data from a simulation tool to be 
> visualized in PARAVIEW.
> 
> There are two books offered related to vtk (Textbook and User's Guide). Would 
> one of those be helpful for the student? Or are the online sources sufficient? 
> Or maybe other books?
> 
> Thank you,
> Torsten
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