[vtk-developers] [Paraview] OpenFOAM reader incompatibility with temporal intermpolator

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Takuya,

Out of curiosity, why would the lack of temporal interpolator make
path lines impractical? The particle tracer does its own interpolation
between timesteps.

-berk

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Takuya OSHIMA
<oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just came across Dave DeMarle's ParaView course slides presented
> at the 6th OpenFOAM Workshop.
> http://www.openfoamworkshop.org/6th_OpenFOAM_Workshop_2011/Program/Training/deMarle_slides.pdf
>
> In the 11th slide (Temporal Processing) I see that the "Interpolation
> between time steps" is grayed out, which I suspect was done so because
> the temporal interpolator did not interpolate the OpenFOAM dataset
> (which made path lines unpractical as well).  This is a known
> problem that has fixes involving both the OpenFOAM reader and the
> temporal interpolator. The fix to the former (which I backported from
> my own development version) is attached in this mail and the latter
> has already been filed as a bug with a patch:
> http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=12151
>
> Thanks,
> Takuya
>
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>
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