[vtkusers] integrate hdf5 with vtk

[David E DeMarle]

I believe the best option is to use XDMF, a lightweight xml based
annotation layer on top of hdf5. The xdmf files serve to describe the
contents of the hdf5 file, which by itself is too generic to be read
by vtk. See www.xdmf.org. There is also some support in xdmf for
in-situ visualization like you describe (via the DSM subsystem), but I
personally have never used it.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:22 AM, liu ning <tantics at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am working on a project which targets to visualize large scale data.Given
> the size of generated  data is very large,we plan to use hdf5 to store and
> manage data.The data is computed in real time and should be visualized and
> store to disk simultaneously.I wonder if anyone had any experience
> concerning about the integration between hdf5 and VTK/ParaView?How to
> visualize the datasets contained in a hdf5 file?
>
> Thanks a lot .
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