[vtk-developers] Re: [Paraview-developers] Composite Data Redesign

[John Biddiscombe]

Utkarsh

I'm very keen to try out the MultiPiece dataset. I think it will make a 
significant difference to the development of several readers for data 
that has been dumped into files - one per processor. Do you have a 
likely timeframe in which you'll be commiting things?

JB

> Folks,
>
> Composite data pipeline is undergoing a redesign to overcome some of 
> its current limitations.  Details of the issues, the new design and 
> the implementation are available at:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Composite_Data_Redesign
>
> To summarize: vtkCompositeDataSet has been modified to support a full 
> tree datastructure instead of a table of tables approach used by the 
> previous implementation. It is possible to traverse the tree using 
> iterators. The iterators are more powerful than before making it 
> possible to not only access the datasets, but also change them. 
> vtkHierarchicalDataSet and vtkMultiGroupDataSet have been deprecated. 
> The only concrete composite datasets available are 
> vtkMultiBlockDataSet, vtkHierarchicalBoxDataSet and vtkTemporalDataSet.
>
> The new code is not available in CVS yet. I'll wait a few days for 
> people to respond before committing it.
>
> Utkarsh
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