I'm a complete newb to paraview and am after some advice for the following problem:
1] I have a .csv file with wave rider buoy data that measures ocean wave heights (I've made it a very simple one dimensional list of 18,000 values - that displays in a spreadsheet view with cell values like 1.88, 1.9, 1.97. 1.71... etc) 2] Each cell value has a time stamp associated with it that I would also like to use later, but I'm not worrying about this at the moment (so it can be an arbitrary time step) 3] I want to use the cell value to drive an animation of a sphere such that the cell value determines a height value (Y value) for the sphere (in eg. metres) 4] I want to be able to play the animation over arbitrary time steps so that the sphere simply jitters up and down. So it's simply passing a parameter from a .csv file to a y parameter for the sphere, moving across time t. It sounded easy, but I am completely stumped as to how I might do it as I can't seem to connect the .csv cell values to the sphere y value. Of course it is trivial to plot the data, but I don't want to do that here. Any suggestions as to how I might do this? It seems straightforward in Blender, Quartz composer, Houdini, Processing - i.e. more conventional animation/visualization packages, but Paraview doesn't seem to enable this with any great obviousness. A python filter? I'm sure I'm missing something blindingly obvious. Thanks in advance :) cheers Peter PhD Researcher Computational Geophysics School of Earth Sciences University of Tasmania _______________________________________________ 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
