[vtkusers] VTK Time support

[Dan Lipsa]

Evan,
Have you seen this blog post:

http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/783


On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Evan Kao <tossin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I guess more simply/specifically, I was wondering how to set up a data
> object (in Python) so that it's compatible with temporal filters like
> vtkTemporalShiftScale, vtkTemporalInterpolator, or
> vtkTemporalStreamTracer.  It seems like these filters take in multi-block
> data, in which each block represents a different time point, but I have no
> idea how to specify the time value for each block.
>
> Thanks,
> Evan Kao
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:16 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com
> > wrote:
>
>> It is still there, just that the classnames have morphed repeatedly since
>> it was first introduced.
>>
>> See Filters/General/vtkTimeSourceExample.h
>> and Common/ExecutionModel/Testing/Cxx/TestTemporalSupport.cxx for decent
>> places to start investigating.
>>
>>
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Evan Kao <tossin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello vtk-users,
>>>
>>> What's the best way to store/handle time-varying data with VTK?  I found
>>> this Wiki page <http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Time_Support> on Time
>>> Support, which says it's been implemented, but couldn't find the class
>>> vtkTemporalDataSet in the nightly documentation or my current version of
>>> VTK (6.1).  It does appear in an earlier version though (5.10.0).  Is there
>>> any reason why it was removed?
>>>
>>> If there isn't a special class for this, does it make sense to simply
>>> add multiple data arrays to a single data object, one for each time point?
>>> Or is it better to have a data object for each time point?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Evan Kao
>>>
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