Hi Werner,

can you provide an example, including the files reuqired for the visualization 
with VisIT?

Best wishes

Alexander

> Alexander,
> 
>   an option might be to use the F5 library (F5.origo.ethz.ch) which was
> designed to work with Cactus/Carpet AMR mesh refinement and to use the
> XDMF extractor tool which extracts the F5 metadata as XML. We used that
> a couple of years ago to get F5-data into Paraview, I would assume it
> would be similar with Visit. Let me know if you're interested in that,
> I'd need to contact the developer of that XDMF extractor tool as I don't
> have it myself at the moment, but it would be a good occasion to revive
> this tool.
> 
>     Werner
> 
> BTW.: F5 is storing time-dependent 3D data as a series of 3D instances,
>        not as a 4D field, such that the data structures may vary over time,
>        which is the case for AMR data usually.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:46:18 -0500, Alexander Beck-Ratzka
> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 March 2012 14:05:04 Ekin Akoglu wrote:
> > 
> > I am afraid I have not described what I want to have clear enough....
> > 
> > I have a 3-d not always regular mesh (we are working with mesh
> > refinement).  On
> > this mesh I have several variables, and again for each variable several
> > time
> > steps. To make plots of these variable, and also to create time series
> > plots I
> > would like to use VisIt, which uses XDMF as a reader for HDF5 data.
> > 
> > In order to get the plots of VisIt correct, the HDF5 datasets must be
> > populated as follows:
> > 
> > 1) x coordinates
> > 2) y coordinates
> > 3) z coordinates
> > (all the coordinates as 3-d arrays)
> > 
> > and finally 4) the data.
> > 
> > How can I add seveals time steps of these data? Must I always add the
> > coordinates in advance or not? Have I a possiblity to mark the time
> > step?
> > 
> > The example given by Ekin only shows how to add one 3-d field, nothing
> > about
> > coordinates and about time steps. I hope my problem is more clear now ..
> > 
> > Best wishes
> > 
> > Alexander
> > 
> >> Dear Alexander,
> >> 
> >> Please see if the attached example C code helps. It is an example from
> >> HDF web site.
> >> 
> >> Best,
> >> 
> >> Ekin
> >> 
> >> On 03/21/2012 01:55 PM, Alexander Beck-Ratzka wrote:
> >> > Hi Folks,
> >> > 
> >> > I am a newby in HDF5, and after having already successfully
> >> > written
> >> 
> >> (and
> >> 
> >> > also plotted) one singel time step of a variable into an HDF5
> >> > dataset,
> >> > I would like to know how I can write time series of a 3-d variable
> >> 
> >> into
> >> 
> >> > one single HDF5 dataset? Do I need to have the tiem as fouhrth
> >> > dimension?
> >> > 
> >> > An explaing example in C would be welcome.
> >> > 
> >> > Best wishes
> >> > 
> >> > Alexander
> >> > 
> >> > 
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