[Paraview] Fwd: Is it a BUG with temporal filters or I am missing something? [Developers, could you please verify if this is a bug or not?]

[Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani]

Hi Utkarsh,

Attached, please find the TestData.zip files.
It includes the collection.pvd and *.vtr files.

http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~mmnasr/Files/TestData.zip

Thanks,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> Can you attach the data file please?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani <
> mmnasr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys, I have asked this question few days ago. Has anyone seen the
>> same problem?
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani <mmnasr at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM
>> Subject: Is it a BUG with temporal filters or I am missing something?
>> [Developers, could you please verify if this is a bug or not?]
>> To: paraview at paraview.org
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is what I am doing:
>> Load a time-aware PVD file like this:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>>  <VTKFile type="Collection" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"
>> compressor="vtkZLibDataCompressor">
>>    <Collection>
>>     <DataSet timestep="0.0" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_0.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="0.2" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_1.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="0.4" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_2.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="0.6" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_3.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="0.8" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_4.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="1.0" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_5.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="1.2" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_6.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="1.4" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_7.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="1.6" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_8.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="1.8" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_9.vtr"/>
>>     <DataSet timestep="2.0" group="" part="0" file="vel_vec_10.vtr"/>
>>   </Collection>
>> </VTKFile>
>>
>> Apply any of the 'temporal filters' including
>> -Temporal Cache w/ Cache size = 2
>> -Temporal Interpolator w/ Discrete Time Step Interval = 0.1
>> -Temporal Shift Scale w/ [default values]
>>
>> to the loaded dataset.
>> I just press the play button on the the animation toolbar and it either
>> gives me this error message or crashes.
>>
>>   ERROR: In
>> /home/utkarsh/Kitware/superbuild/paraview/src/paraview/VTK/Filtering/vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline.cxx,
>> line 934
>>
>> vtkPVPostFilterExecutive (0x2d5d190): No maximum number of pieces has
>> been set in the information for output port 0 on algorithm
>> vtkPVPostFilter(0x2d26830).
>>
>> I am using PV 3.14.0 (and .1) on both Ubuntu and Windows.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced the same problem?
>> If the developers are reading this, could you please let me know if that
>> is a bug or not? I really need to decide soon wether or not to use PV for
>> post-processing of some particle-tracing part.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mohamad
>>
>> ****************************
>> A follow up on this problem.
>> if anyone is interested, I think it is a bug with the *rectilinear* vtk
>> reader (or any derivatives).
>> I converted the same dataset to *.vtu format, and read the file series.
>> Did the same experiment with temporal filters and everything looked
>> perfectly fine. No error message or crashing.
>>
>>
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