Writing out a series of legacy VTK files (one per time step) should be fairly easy. I would write this as a polydata using the polylines cell type. The documentation for the legacy format is at http://vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf See this page for information about animating series of VTK files: http://paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series
-berk On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Jamie Ruprecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike, > > Thanks for your reply and assistance so far! To be more specific, our data > is a 1-dimensional times series of water suface elevations. At each time > step we have water heights recorded for the length of the computational > domain. The columns in our excel file represents the changing water profile > for each time step and the rows represent the spatial step. The aim is to > generate a 2D animation showing a wave propagating along the computational > domain. > > Cheers, > Jamie. > > >> CC: [email protected] >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Paraview] paraview: uploading data files >> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:17:42 -0500 >> >> You will probably have to write some sort of custom reader for your >> data. This can be just a simple stand-alone program that converts your >> data into the .pvd file or you can make the reader a ParaView plugin >> so that ParaView can open your data file(s). >> >> The first thing you will probably want to do is export the data from >> excel into a CSV file for easier reading. >> >> Next you can write the code for your reader. If you can give some more >> information about what exactly the data in the xls files represents >> the community may be able to guide you further. For example is the >> data xyz coordinates for a triangular mesh? Is it voxel data? Is it >> image data? >> >> There are lots of examples for all of those around the net and from >> various folks on the list (including myself). >> >> Cheers >> _________________________________________________________ >> Mike Jackson [email protected] >> BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net >> Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio >> >> >> >> On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Jamie Ruprecht wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi everybody! >> > >> > I am also new to this forum and new to paraview and python coding. >> > >> > I am currently looking to create an animation of shallow water waves >> > using paraview, but I am having some trouble uploading my data files. >> > At this stage, my data files are in excel files (.xls) and I am just >> > wondering how I should go about converting them to paraview data >> > files (.pvd) or the like, so that I may create an animation. >> > >> > Any help would be much appreciated. >> > >> > Jamie. >> > >> > Sell your car for just $40 at CarPoint.com.au It's simple! >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ParaView mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> > > > ________________________________ > Find great deals on eBay Net yourself a bargain > _______________________________________________ > ParaView mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
