[vtkusers] VTK/MayaVi and AMR datasets?

[Terry J. Ligocki]

We have developed a visualization package called ChomboVis (using VTK 
via Python) for visualizing the AMR datasets produced by our AMR 
library, Chombo.  You can find out more about ChomboVis at 
http://seesar.lbl.gov/anag/chombo/chombovis.html and more about Chombo 
at http://seesar.lbl.gov/anag/chombo/index.html .  Both are being 
actively developed and maintained.

ChomboVis reads AMR data stored in a documented HDF5 file format.  In 
addition, here is a simple, example tool for translating clear text 
files into the Chombo/ChomboVis HDF5 format.  This could be used as the 
basis for a tool to translate other AMR file format into 
Chombo/ChomboVis's AMR file format.

Also, ChomboVis has been extended to include data manipulation 
capabilities, e.g., derived quantities (defined via functions in 
Python), and has a non-graphical interface for data browsing and 
manipulation when graphics/visualization is not needed (and/or not 
available).

Let me or the ChomboVis development team, chombovis at davis.lbl.gov, know 
if you have further questions.  If you decide to take at look at 
ChomboVis please let us know if you have any comments, any questions, or 
run into any problems building or running ChomboVis.

        Sincerely,

        Terry J. (Ligocki, tjligocki at lbl.gov)
        Applied Numerical Algorithms Group
        Computer Research Division
        Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

> I just did a quick search on the VTK discussion list and found only 
> brief mention of installing support in VTK for AMR 
> (Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement).
>
> Has there been any activity/progress in this?
>
> Does anyone in the MayaVi and/or VTK communities have any 
> suggestions/hacks/other for importing and manipulating such a dataset?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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