[Paraview] Paraview's "read-values" capability

[Takuya OSHIMA]

Hi Vasilis Sassanis,

Maybe too late answer: That is because the OpenFOAM reader always
holds floating point attributes in single precision regardless of the
original precision of the data.

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN


From: "Vasilis Sassanis" <mead5867 at upnet.gr>
Subject: [Paraview] Paraview's "read-values" capability
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:43:05 +0200 (EET)

> Hey lads,
> 
> i have these values in one of my results files from OpenFoam for pressure :
> 
> 83333.29727559452
> 83333.29727116377
> 83333.29728432324
> 83333.29726004707
> 83333.29726903667
> 83333.29726512189
> 83333.2972572857
> 83333.29729613037
> 83333.29731830103
> 83333.29732028065 and many more for all the points in the grid.
> 
> As you can see, the difference starts from the ninth significant digit and
> there is a difference in the values, but paraview plots only two values,
> 83333.306514 for max and 83333.290024 for min, and not the intermediate
> values. It just show two colours, blue for the min and red for the max.
> 
> Why it doesn't plot the other values???
> 
> Thanks
>