If your "global" data is stored in field data, you can use the "Plot Global Variables Over Time" filter.
-berk On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Daniele Avitabile <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks berk, > > what I would like to do it is > 1) produce an XY plot of s1 versus t (and similar for s2). This would be > good already > 2) Produce two synchronous animations: while I visualise the field u as a > function of t, I would like also to trace s1 (or s2) as a function of t. > > Hope I have been clear. > > Thanks again! > > Daniele > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Berk Geveci <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> If you want to store values that are not associated with points or >> cells, you can store them in the field data. ParaView reads field data >> with everything else. The question is, what do you want to do with >> those values after you load them? >> >> -berk >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Daniele Avitabile >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Mike, >> > >> > I might totally unaware of what you are talking about, but do you mean I >> > will have to store s1(t0) and s2(t0) together with u(x,y,z,t0)? >> > >> > Here u(x,y,z,t0) is a scalar field at time t0 (i.e. nx times ny times nz >> > data points), whereas s1(t0) is *a single value* at time t0. How can I >> > get >> > ParaView to read *a single value* in a legacy vtk file? >> > >> > Best. >> > >> > Daniele >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Michael Jackson >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 18, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Daniele Avitabile wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi everybody, >> >>> >> >>> I have a time-dependent field u(x,y,z,t) and two scalars s1(t), s2(t). >> >>> At >> >>> the time being, for each time frame I have a separate .vtk file >> >>> >> >>> u(x,y,z,t0) -> step_0000.vtk >> >>> u(x,y,z,t1) -> step_0001.vtk >> >>> u(x,y,z,t2) -> step_0002.vtk >> >>> etc. >> >>> >> >>> whereas the corresponding scalar quantities are stored synchronously >> >>> in a >> >>> single column-formatted file >> >>> s1(t0) s2(t0) >> >>> s1(t1) s2(t1) >> >>> s1(t2) s2(t2) >> >>> etc. >> >>> >> >>> I usually visualise the .vtk file and animate u. Since s1(t) and s2(t) >> >>> are influencing the overall dynamics, I wold need to looad and >> >>> visualise s1 >> >>> and s2 at the same time, possibly animate them synchronously. >> >>> >> >>> What is the best way to achieve this? If you have any smart >> >>> suggestions >> >>> as to how store s1(t) and s2(t) within the .vtk file I would be >> >>> grateful. >> >>> Please note that s1 and s2 are *not* probation points of the field u, >> >>> but >> >>> they are totally diferent quantities. >> >>> >> >>> Best. >> >>> >> >>> Daniele >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> Can you store s1 and s2 as scalars of the vtk data set? This means it >> >> would have to be included in each vtk file but would solve the problem. >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________________ >> >> Mike Jackson [email protected] >> >> BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net >> >> Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ParaView mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
