Hi Fred, > >I think the answer to my question is 'no', but wanted to double check > >before I embark on any work to address this. > > > >Background: MayaVi allows to display time series very nicely. All one > >has to do is to create vtk files with file names data1.vtk, data2.vtk, > >data3.vtk, ... and MayaVi will pick this up automatically and display > >the data in these files one after the other. > > > >In each vtk file I need to store the mesh and for the systems I am > >looking at the mesh (a unstructured FE mesh) does not change over > >time. Therefore, it appears I am wasting disk space (and probably time > >to read the mesh from the file) storing this redundant information for > >every time step. > > > >Here is the question: Is it possible to, say, define the mesh only in > >the first file (somehow) and to store the data in subsequent files? > > > > > I full agree, because I have the same problem. > I'm also interested by this issue (for MV2). > > But I think it is a VTK's one, not a MV's (maybe I'm wrong).
I agree, it is probably a VTK question. I just felt that on this list I find people with similar interests more easily. There is also (theoretically), the option of hacking MV so that it does not need the full VTK file for subsequent frames (or reads a completely new data format which solves this problem as long as the user can provide a data reader for this). Cheers, Hans > > > Cheers, > > -- > http://scipy.org/FredericPetit > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > MayaVi-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mayavi-users > > > > -- Hans Fangohr School of Engineering Sciences University of Southampton Phone: +44 (0) 238059 8345 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ MayaVi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mayavi-users
