Dear Joachim: thanks for the help.

My best, Martín

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Joachim Pouderoux <
joachim.pouder...@kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Unfortunately there is no reader for this format in VTK/ParaView.
> Moreoever, VPL looks like a
> vector graphics format and there is no such similar reader in VTK. However
> it looks like
> Madagascar can convert them to raster format (PNG, JPEG etc).
>
> i) A way to go would be to develop a new C++ or Python reader for VPL that
> wiil on the fly convert them to a
> raster file and load them as a 2D image. As this is a animated file the
> reader will have to
> declare the number of frames in the animation as the number time steps of
> the data and then
> be able to provide the conversion of the frame requested by the pipeline.
>
> ii) Simpler : if conversion cannot be performed on the fly or if you can
> create a series of PNG/JPG files
> from Madagascar, you can just load them as a time series with ParaView
> (all files should be suffixed with the frame id (eg: frame0.png, frame1.png
> etc.)
> then in the Open File dialog of ParaView just select "frame*.png" item.
> Thus each file will be considered
> as a timestep of the time serie.
>
> Hope it is clear,
> Best
>
> *Joachim Pouderoux*, PhD
>
> *Technical Expert - Scientific Computing Team*
> *Kitware SAS <http://www.kitware.fr>*
>
>
> 2016-11-30 13:15 GMT-04:00 Martin Huarte Espinosa <
> martin.huar...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear Paraview enthusiasts: good day. We are trying to visualize
>> madagascar-created (http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Main_Page) data files using
>> paraview (4.3.1). These output files are either binaries or .vpl (
>> http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Tutorial#VPLOT). When using madagascar's viz
>> tool they look "like a movie"; 2D representation of a moving field. We are
>> however unable to visualize this using paraview but we really would like to.
>>
>> Has any of you encountered this problem? Any suggestions will be very
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> My best, Martín
>>
>>
>> *Martín Huarte-Espinosa, Ph.D.*
>> *Physicist *
>> *Expert Numerical Modeler and Code Developer*
>> *High Performance Computing Specialist*
>>
>> * <http://linkedin.com/pub/martin-huarte-espinosa/59/6b7/13a>
>> <https://twitter.com/mhuartee>*
>>
>>
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