[vtkusers] VTK Time support

[Evan Kao]

Hi Dan,

I haven't yet.  That seems really helpful.  However, since
VTKPythonAlgorithm was developed recently, does that mean the temporal
filters (and other streaming filters) are essentially unusable in previous
versions of VTK in Python?

- Evan

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Dan Lipsa <dan.lipsa at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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.
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>>>
>>> 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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