[Paraview] help about the animation of image and mesh sequences

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

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Utkarsh

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Zhijun Zhang <zjzhang at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Utkarsh:
>
>      Thank you very much.  It seems I did not open the file as *.vtk
> format.
> when I open the fille series, I expand the triangle in the file name
> selector and select the vtk files as multiple files.
> Now when I click the 'play', the meshes can deform.
>
>       However, I have another problem with the animation save. It seems the
> saved 'avi' file is not
> smooth. It just 'jump' from one frame to another.  I did save one avi file
> with smooth video. However,
> after that I can not get it now anymore no matter I choose 'sequence',
> 'realtime' or 'snap to timesteps' mode.
> I do not know if there is some setting for me to choose to get the smooth
> motion video.
> Thank you very much.
>
> regards,
> Alex
>
>
>
> 2012/6/11 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>>
>> I am not sure why you "Play" would not work. Paraview automatically
>> detects file series and reads them in as time for *.vtk files.
>> Attached are two files. When I open them and hit play, I do see the
>> sphere changing.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Zhijun Zhang <zjzhang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear all:
>> >
>> >            I have an animation problem of a series of vtk image files
>> > (e.g.
>> > vtkImage1.vtk to vtkImage100.vtk) together with a series of deformable
>> > model
>> > made
>> > from it (for example, dynamic lung mesh motion model, vtkMesh1.vtk to
>> > vtkMesh100.vtk). I would like to make a simple animation video to show
>> > the deformation of this model related to the images slices. I wonder if
>> > there is way to automatically do add them as keyframes?  if not, need I
>> > edit all of the 100 files in the animation editor as key frames?  It
>> > looks a
>> > little bit boring if doing like this to edit the step or ramp function
>> > for
>> > each time slots.
>> > I have seen in some old question, after I load a vtk file series I can
>> > play
>> > the vtk file series. However, when I click the play in the VCR menu,
>> > there is no animation, all meshes are just fixed, not moving.  I do not
>> > know
>> > if there is something I missed.
>> > Thank you very much.
>> >
>> > regard,
>> > Alex
>> >
>> >
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