[Paraview] Unable to load binary or vplot files

[Joachim Pouderoux]

Hi Martin,

Unfortunately there is no reader for this format in VTK/ParaView.
Moreoever, VPL looks like a
vector graphics format and there is no such similar reader in VTK. However
it looks like
Madagascar can convert them to raster format (PNG, JPEG etc).

i) A way to go would be to develop a new C++ or Python reader for VPL that
wiil on the fly convert them to a
raster file and load them as a 2D image. As this is a animated file the
reader will have to
declare the number of frames in the animation as the number time steps of
the data and then
be able to provide the conversion of the frame requested by the pipeline.

ii) Simpler : if conversion cannot be performed on the fly or if you can
create a series of PNG/JPG files
from Madagascar, you can just load them as a time series with ParaView (all
files should be suffixed with the frame id (eg: frame0.png, frame1.png etc.)
then in the Open File dialog of ParaView just select "frame*.png" item.
Thus each file will be considered
as a timestep of the time serie.

Hope it is clear,
Best

*Joachim Pouderoux*, PhD

*Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team*
*Kitware SAS <http://www.kitware.fr>*


2016-11-30 13:15 GMT-04:00 Martin Huarte Espinosa <martin.huartee at gmail.com>
:

> Dear Paraview enthusiasts: good day. We are trying to visualize
> madagascar-created (http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Main_Page) data files using
> paraview (4.3.1). These output files are either binaries or .vpl (
> http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Tutorial#VPLOT). When using madagascar's viz
> tool they look "like a movie"; 2D representation of a moving field. We are
> however unable to visualize this using paraview but we really would like to.
>
> Has any of you encountered this problem? Any suggestions will be very
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> My best, Martín
>
>
> *Martín Huarte-Espinosa, Ph.D.*
> *Physicist *
> *Expert Numerical Modeler and Code Developer*
> *High Performance Computing Specialist*
>
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