Thanks a lot for the explanation Ken. This question came to my mind when I thought about visualizing 2 simulations at the same time (and in the same pv session, of course). One using fixed time steps and the other one using adaptive time steps.
[]'s Renato. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <[email protected]>wrote: > When animating these two datasets, ParaView will animate through 5 time > values (it is better not to think about them as time steps since ParaView > does not use time step indices with animating, it uses time values). The > time values will be 0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1.0. (ParaView will recognize > that the time values of DS1 are also in DS2 and visit them only once.) When > at a time value that is not in DS1, such as 0.25, ParaView will load the > "closest" time value available. (I don't remember whether ParaView will > round down to 0.0 or up to 0.5. Try it and find out.) > > ParaView will never interpolate missing frames by default because it can > introduce artifacts. However, you can impose interpolation if that is what > you want by using the Temporal Interpolator filter. Attach this filter to > DS1 and you will get interpolated values for that filter. This only works > if the topology remains consistent, though. > > -Ken > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Renato Elias [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 7:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Paraview] Doubt about animating 2 (or more) datasets > simultaneously > > Just a simple (and probably silly) doubt: > > When animating 2 datasets with different time scales simultaneously, is > ParaView able to synchronize the frames? For example, let's suppose we load > 2 datasets with the following timestep distributions: > > DS1: 1 (0.0), 2 (0.5), 3 (1.0) > > DS2: 1 (0.0), 2 (0.25), 3 (0.5), 4 (0.75), 5 (1.0) > > where in n (t), n is the time step number and t is the corresponding time > value. Both datasets finish at the same time instant (t = 1.0) but the "time > resolution" was clearly different. In this (easy) case, how does ParaView > create the movie? Does it interpolate the missing frames for the dataset 1? > > Thanks for any clarification > > -- > Renato N. Elias > =================================== > High Performance Computing Center (NACAD) > Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > > -- Renato N. Elias =================================== High Performance Computing Center (NACAD) Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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