[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: ParaView Particle simulation xyz file format

[Scott, W Alan]

There is an example of what Ken is discussing below on the Wiki here: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Data_formats.  Look for CSV time series.

Alan

From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Moreland, Kenneth
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:32 PM
To: Rohit Narurkar; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] ParaView Particle simulation xyz file format

I don't really know anything about the xyz format, but if you write a series of csv files with numbered filenames each containing data for one time step, ParaView can read this as a time series and will animate it.

-Ken

From: Rohit Narurkar <rohitnarurkar at gmail.com<mailto:rohitnarurkar at gmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:18 PM
To: "paraview at paraview.org<mailto:paraview at paraview.org>" <paraview at paraview.org<mailto:paraview at paraview.org>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] ParaView Particle simulation xyz file format

Hi

I am working with ParaView for the very first time, and I am supposed to simulate 'n' particles over 't' time steps.

With a code, I can generate the position vectors (3-D) of all the particles at all the time steps and I am currently writing the data down to a .csv format. I also have the data in .xyz format but when I import it, only the first time step data is visible. What to do in order to be able to get all the data, from all the time steps?

How am I supposed to import the position vector data in to ParaView and simulate it over all the time steps?

In the end, I would like to see something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MOuKUExmFU. If I must output the data from my code to some other format, which can be easily identified by ParaView as time-varying data, then what is that output format and how do I go about doing it?

Thanks a lot! Rohit.
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