[vtkusers] NetCDF reader/writer for VTK

[Luke J West]

Bernd,

I haven't done this before, but am about to. I'm designing a class heirarchy for
generic NetCDF/HDF/HDF5 Scientific Dataset (and Dimension) data. I was thinking
to map NetCDF/HDFx SDS's to vtkDataArray's - i.e. vtkFloatArray, etc and vice versa.

I'm using vtk in 64Bit on IRIX64 with HDF5. My files (from a numerical
simulation of the global ocean) are so huge, they need to be 64bit.

I'll keep the list posted as to progress and publish my classes when ready. 

Please let me know what your own plans are. Also, if you don't mind me asking,
what is your CFD application and what kind of visualisations are you doing?


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Quoting Bernd Hentschel <bernd.hentschel at post.rwth-aachen.de>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently working on a project involving CFD data (curvilinear
> grids) given in NetCDF-format. Since (to my knowledge) vtk can not
> directly access these data sets I will need custom
> vtkDataReader/vtkDataWriter classes which convert the content of the
> given data files to vtk-structures and v.v. My question is if there is
> anybody here who has done this before or who knows of an implementation
> of such a reader/writer.
> 
> Thanx,
> 	Bernd
> 
> 
> 
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