[vtkusers] Re: [MayaVi-users] Re: Is there a validator for VTK file formats?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Tom,

	You header look suspicious. Have a look at VTKData/Data/tetraMesh.vtk 
(i copy the header from there).

Here is the diff:

$ diff -u particlefluxstruct.vtk particlefluxstruct2.vtk 

--- particlefluxstruct.vtk      2004-07-28 10:28:28.000000000 -0400
+++ particlefluxstruct2.vtk     2004-07-28 10:27:50.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
  # vtk DataFile Version 2.0
-flux model data
+Unstructured Grid Example
  ASCII
-DATASET STRUCTURED_GRID
-DIMENSIONS            4            4            5
+
+DATASET UNSTRUCTURED_GRID
  POINTS           80 float
       0.250000       0.00000      0.433013
        1.65954       0.00000      0.604023


HTH
Mathieu

W.T. Bridgman wrote:
> Here's a reduced version of the files.
> 
> particlefluxstruct.vtk works fine but doesn't complete the toroidal 
> shape in the xy-plane, but it does illustrate the basic geometry. The 
> lack of cell connectivity breaks the isosurface generation.
> 
> particleflux.vtk is an unstructured grid and fails to load.
> Thoughts on why that is?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
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