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>* >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> >> >
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