[vtkusers] Adding new file formats into VTK

[Berk Geveci]

What is you data type? Does the reader have to support parallel reading?
Streaming?

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 15:26, tom fogal wrote:
> Currently our group has external utilities which convert from the file format
> our models output into VTK's format. Particularly for large datasets, this
> causes a great inefficiency, as the data must be read from the disk, 
> reformatted in memory, and written back to the disk... and then read back
> from disk when VTK loads it.
> 
> We are interested in extending VTK to recognize the file format we are using
> to alleviate this excess bottleneck. I was hoping to get some advice on where
> to start and some sort of vague time estimate from someone who has done this
> sort of thing before.
> 
> It looks as if we would want a new object derived from a 'vtkDataSetSource'
> which implements a number of functions (*New, vtkTypeRevisionMacro,
> PrintSelf, Update, ExecuteInformation, etc...). Am I on the right track?
> Is there documentation anywhere which explains the member functions that
> would need to be implemented? Is there a particularly 'good'/simple file
> reader that we might want to model our code around?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -tom
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