[vtkusers] VTK data files and formats - addition information...

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Terry-

Hopefully you got my previous message about field data.

At 04:47 PM 8/22/2000 -0700, Terry J. Ligocki wrote:

>Most of this could be avoided if there was some mechanism in the VTK file 
>format to "include"
>other files.  Beyond that one could imagine having "offsets", "strides", 
>etc. but just the
>ability to reference other files would go a long way.  It could be as 
>simple as a directive
>which when read cause the reader to "stop reading the current file, 
>continue by reading the
>referenced file, and when that's done continue reading the original 
>file".  This directive
>could be added to all the VTK file formats.  If this doesn't exist 
>already, I think it would
>be very useful to add and everything would still be backward 
>compatible.  As I said, I'd be
>interested in helping to do this with some guidance if it seemed worthwhile.

We have thought about this functionality...especially in the context of a 
parallel environment.
We'll study your note carefully to see how it fits with our thinking. 
Thanks for the suggestions.

Will