[Paraview] Not a Number (NaN) in legacy vtk file format

[Mathieu Westphal]

Hi Graham,

Legacy .vtk file do handle correctly NaN values.
Attached is a .vtk file that contains NaN values and can be opened and
visualized without issues in ParaView.

Best,

Mathieu Westphal

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:16 PM, KNAPP Graham <graham.KNAPP at cstb.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to include Not a Number values in the legacy vtk file
> format ?
>
> I have tried and I get length mismatch errors on import.  I am using
> Polydata – Cell data – Scalars – Float, writing the data from a Python
> script in a different application.
>
> If not, would it be possible to write a custom import filter for this?
> Any suggestions on how to start? Or another workaround?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Graham
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