[Paraview] VTK legacy file format supported?

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Valdo,

ParaView can definitely be used to visualize tabular data. However, very
few people use the VTK file format for that - in fact that example is the
only one I have seen and it was created for the VTK book a long time ago.
If folks feel like they want to use the VTK format rather than CSV and
such, we can fix this issue.

-berk

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:29 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com>wrote:

> VTK and ParaView were designed initially for visualizing spatially
> defined data, and it is still what they are best at.
>
> The modern mechanism in VTK for working with general data is to use
> the vtkTable and vtkGraph data structures. These have their
> corresponding readers/writers and file formats. The financial data
> example predates them and isn't as well supported in ParaView.
>
> The simplest way to get non spatially oriented data into ParaView is
> to simply open up a CSV (comma separated values) text file.
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Valdo Meyer <stan1313 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> > Ok, I understand but does it mean that PV is supposed not to be used for
> > visualizing data that are not spacially defined?
> > I have time series of global simulation quantities, such as energy, mean
> > pressure and so, and I would like to draw a set of y=f(t) curves using
> the
> > Plot filter, how could I built an appropriate datafile?
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:31:50 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [Paraview] VTK legacy file format supported?
> > From: berk.geveci at kitware.com
> > To: stan1313 at hotmail.fr
> > CC: paraview at paraview.org
> >
> >
> > Try opening one that actually has a mesh, like office.binary.vtk. That
> one
> > is a bad example for ParaView in that it doesn't have any mesh associated
> > with it, just bunch of arrays. We could make ParaView support that file
> > pretty easily but it has never been a priority. Overall, support for the
> > legacy VTK format is there and we don't plan on dropping it ever.
> >
> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Fred Fred <stan1313 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I try to load financial.vtk - a legacy file from the VTKdata set - but PV
> > does not seem to recognize the format!?
> >
> >
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