Hello Natalie,
I don't know if this will be helpful (since you already have all of
those XMF files), but the standard way of doing the time animation
with Xdmf and ParaView is to have all of the time steps in one XMF
file as a "temporal collection". Each time step in the file could
refer to a separate HDF5 file for its data. There are ways of enabling
animation for a series of files using a time-unaware reader in
ParaView, but I think it would be easier to write a script to combine
all of your XMF files together into the time-aware format that is
supported by Xdmf.
I'll put an example below.
-Eric
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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group
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<Xdmf>
<Domain Name="MSI">
<Grid Name="CellTime" GridType="Collection"
CollectionType="Temporal">
<Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.00" />
<Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex"
NodesPerElement="100">
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3"
Format="HDF">
fiber_run3.h5:/iter00/cells/position
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node"
Name="CellType">
<DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1"
Format="HDF">
fiber_run3.h5:/iter00/cells/numtype
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.01" />
<Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex"
NodesPerElement="100">
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3"
Format="HDF">
fiber_run3.h5:/iter01/cells/position
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node"
Name="CellType">
<DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1"
Format="HDF">
fiber_run3.h5:/iter01/cells/numtype
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
<Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform">
<Time Value="0.02" />
<Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex"
NodesPerElement="100">
</Topology>
<Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
<DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="100 3"
Format="HDF">
fiber_run3.h5:/iter02/cells/position
</DataItem>
</Geometry>
<Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node"
Name="CellType">
<DataItem DataType="Int" Dimensions="100 1"
Format="HDF">
fiber_run3.h5:/iter02/cells/numtype
</DataItem>
</Attribute>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Domain>
</Xdmf>
On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Natalie Happenhofer wrote:
Hi!
I have a lot of Xdmf - Files which I would like to animate as a
video in paraview. For every Time Step I have a separate .xmf -File
and a corresponding .h5 file. Does anyone know how to do that?
thx a lot,
NH
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