[vtkusers] How to use / export vtkTemporalDataSet ?

[Gustavo C Longhin]

Ok David,

    Thanks a lot for your time, am already working with vtp files and 
worked just fine.

Best regards.

Gustavo.



David E DeMarle wrote:
> Instead of producing legacy .vtk files, produce (or convert them into)
> .vtp files. Then write a .pvd file that lists them. (Is that enough
> TLA's or should iwm).
>
> In the .pvd give include timestep attributes with the floating point
> value for the time you want associated with each file.
>
> cheers
>
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Gustavo C Longhin
> <longhin at labmec.fec.unicamp.br> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks a lot David,
>>
>>   It did work out ! A lot easier.
>>   That was exactly what I need.
>>   Do you know how to change the (possibly) TIME_RANGE between time steps ?
>>   Thanks a lot again.
>>
>>   Best regards
>>
>> Gustavo.
>>
>> David E DeMarle wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Gustavo C Longhin
>>> <longhin at labmec.fec.unicamp.br> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>>  I am trying to write some code using vtkTemporalDataSet with no success.
>>>>  I have a time dependent solution and want to export it to ParaView but
>>>> unfortunately can't get it done.
>>>>  The strategy I idopted was to create for each step a polydata object and
>>>> populate a vtkTemporalDataSet with them.
>>>>  Afterwards I woud like to use any available vtkWriter to export my
>>>> TemporalDataSet so I could open it in ParaView. Is it possible to export
>>>> a
>>>> TemporalDataSet with any specific vtkWriter ?
>>>>  It seams the vtkTemporalDataSet is bit recent in VTK and therefore
>>>> documentation for it is quite hard to find.
>>>>  Any examples with TemporalDataSet I would appreciate.
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks a lot.
>>>>  Best regards.
>>>>
>>>> Gustavo
>>>>
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>>>> Gustavo Camargo Longhin
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>>>>         
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I think vtkTemporalDataSet was not meant to be used directly. It does
>>> group data sets together that collectively define a temporally varying
>>> entity, but it is currently only used deep inside VTK and paraview (to
>>> aggregate results together from non time aware producers to satifsy
>>> input requests from time aware filters).
>>>
>>> Instead of trying to use that, simply produce a series of .vtk files
>>> from your polydata. Make sure to name them sequentially,
>>> myresult_t0.vtk, myresult_t1.vtk etc. Paraview will then recognize the
>>> set of them as temporally varying.
>>> see: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> Gustavo Camargo Longhin
>> LabMeC - FEC - UNICAMP
>> +55 (19) 35212396
>> +55 (19) 92854509
>>
>>
>>     
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Gustavo Camargo Longhin
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+55 (19) 35212396
+55 (19) 92854509