[Paraview] csv point data through time

[andrealphus]

Utkarsk,

Any way to make the points in time accumulate? I.e. not have the point
from t < current time, not disapear?

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:32 AM, andrealphus <andrealphus at gmail.com> wrote:
> nevermind looks like its a UCS2 vs UCS4 error.....
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:20 AM, andrealphus <andrealphus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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