[Paraview] Good file format for point data on a surface over 60, 000 timesteps

[Berk Geveci]

What kind of visualizations are they looking to do? It may be a good idea
to treat time differently here given that it is the most dense dimensions.
I am thinking of some sort of tabular format that can then be used with
filtering to extract a time step. Potentially, even a database may work
depending on what the end visualization product will be.

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Tyson Whitehead <twhitehead at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to help one of our users (HPC center) use ParaView to work
> with their wind tunnel data.  They have a large number of time samples
> (60,000) from a series of surfaces with from a small number of sample
> points (64).
>
> The sample points are irregular but structured as they are laid out to
> be more dense in areas that should see more differences (i.e., at best
> you could say it was a non-uniform grid with several of the points not
> used).
>
> What file format should this data be put in to import into ParaView?
>
> The VTK legacy formats and XML description formats seem painful to use
> with this number of timesteps and I believe (please correct if wrong)
> that the NetCDF wants a regular grid.
>
> Thanks!  -Tyson
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