[vtkusers] RE: FEM-VTK?

[Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida]

On Thursday 04 April 2002 09:57, James C. Robinson wrote:
> Dear Vladan,
>
> I am trying to use VTK for post processing of 3D FEM for a scalar field
> (pressure in a reservoir). Thus far I am doing it by creating a *.vtk file
> of the data that I want to visualise and reading it in using a
> vtkUnstructuredGridReader. The details of this are given in The VTK User’s
> Guide (essential reading) in a TCL example on p.93. I am writing in Visual
> C++, but the translation of the TCL script to C++ is straight forward.
>

When you have a *.vtk file with your fem results the simplest way to view it 
is (probably) to use mayavi, http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/. It will show 
scalars, vectors (and deformed shapes), tensors (as ellipsoids), etc.

Regards

Ze Paulo