[Paraview] csv point data through time

[andrealphus]

Thanks Utkarsh! Out of curiosity, should the plugin work out of the
box or is it meant to be an example I should deconstruct. (I load a
x,y,z,time file as you described but get no output)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> You put together a "Programmable Source" to do that. Attached is  a Plugin
> with such a Programmable source/reader. Load it using "Tools | Plugins".
> Then when you open the csv file, you'll be promped to choose a reader,
> choose the ""CSV Reader With Time Column".
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:15 PM, andrealphus <andrealphus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a database of earthquakes in a csv file formatted as;
>>
>> x,y,z,M,time
>> 344914.339004,4153503.07632,-7703,1.22,441772084.24
>> 337090.052527,4158668.87752,-10404,1.06,441774936.69
>> 335085.941364,4156934.63971,-7245,0.72,441789441.37
>> 337111.336138,4167120.16812,-8539,0.76,441790442.57
>> 335024.848735,4159463.38774,-4032,0.71,441801083.1
>> 338135.588075,4159856.10709,-4160,1.17,441821076.16
>>
>> where time is in unix seconds.
>>
>> Normally I plot this by table_to_points, as spherical glpyhs, colored
>> by time and sized by "M" (magnitude), see image;
>> http://tinyurl.com/neaxe7n
>>
>>
>> But it would be nice to step through these points with time. I just
>> cant figure out how to actually get paraview to recognize my time
>> column in my table (or my point attribute).
>>
>> Normally I would either reformat this to a netcdf or create individual
>> file at each time step, but for this case these are not suitable
>> options.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
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