Really? Particle tracer never works for me without temporal interpolator (I only get a polygonal mesh with 0 cells/points). How do you make the interpolation work and how do you specify the timestep interval?
Takuya Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D. Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN From: Berk Geveci <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Paraview] OpenFOAM reader incompatibility with temporal intermpolator Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:24:44 -0400 > Hi Takuya, > > Out of curiosity, why would the lack of temporal interpolator make > path lines impractical? The particle tracer does its own interpolation > between timesteps. > > -berk > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Takuya OSHIMA > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just came across Dave DeMarle's ParaView course slides presented > > at the 6th OpenFOAM Workshop. > > http://www.openfoamworkshop.org/6th_OpenFOAM_Workshop_2011/Program/Training/deMarle_slides.pdf > > > > In the 11th slide (Temporal Processing) I see that the "Interpolation > > between time steps" is grayed out, which I suspect was done so because > > the temporal interpolator did not interpolate the OpenFOAM dataset > > (which made path lines unpractical as well). This is a known > > problem that has fixes involving both the OpenFOAM reader and the > > temporal interpolator. The fix to the former (which I backported from > > my own development version) is attached in this mail and the latter > > has already been filed as a bug with a patch: > > http://vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=12151 > > > > Thanks, > > Takuya > > > > Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D. > > Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University > > 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > > > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
