Dear Dr. Johnson, Thank you so much! I was being a bit stupid and misunderstood how the files are output. Thank you again!
Sincerely, Chiraag > On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Chiraag Nataraj wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out exactly how 3D stuff works with respect to the >> post-processing. Yeah, MEEP does the 3D simulation and all, but where >> do >> you go from there? I'm not exactly sure how you're supposed to use the >> data given by MEEP. > > Ah, sorry, I didn't read your subsequent emails. Meep allows you to > export the data as HDF5 files, which are a standard data format for > scientific dataset that stored 3d arrays. > > There are many, many programs that you can use to visualize these. e.g. > Matlab can read in HDF5 files and then you can use Matlab's plotting > tools. My own h5utils programs allow you to convert HDF5 files into > various formats and to visualize 2d slices. e.g. h5topng allows you to > plot 2d slices in a simple way, but for more complicated visualization you > could use an fancier tool. e.g. you can use h5tovtk to convert the file > into VTK format and then plot it using a free program like MayaVi or > ParaView (both of which allow you to do lots of fancy 3d plots). HDF5 > itself comes with a command "h5ls" that allows you to see the dimensions > of the datasets inside any HDF5 file. > > --SGJ > _______________________________________________ > meep-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss > _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
