Hi Christopher, I was looking for a general filter that can turn a series of variables named in a consecutive manner into one time dependent variable.
Thank you very much for your reply. I now think about using Ensight Gold or XDMF as data format which is more modern and appropriate than VTK. Best regards Daniel 2017-01-23 22:24 GMT+01:00 Christopher Neal <[email protected]>: > Hi Daniel, > > The datasets that you describe are what most computational physics > datasets are like. The geometry remains fixed while the scalars on the > geometry change with time. The Ensight Gold format is one that I use often. > It has very nice support for time series data where there is just one > geometry file with a set of changing scalars on the geometry. > > http://www-vis.lbl.gov/NERSC/Software/ensight/doc/OnlineHelp/UM-C11.pdf > > I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for in your original question. Do > you want the Kitware guys to write a filter that can read some sort of > simulation data formatted in a specific way into Paraview? They would need > more information about the format that you are using i.e. how is the data > structured, etc. > > Hope this helps, > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Frisch < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> in Biomedical Engineering we often work with large datasets where the >> geometry doesn't change over time but the scalar values change. Therefore >> we use to save the data as single geometry with many variables (data >> arrays) that are named according to the time index. >> >> It would be very convenient if ParaView could recognize these data arrays >> as time index again. I am looking for the following filter: >> >> INPUT >> - Dataset with >> - one geometry >> - some individual variables (p.ex. material class) >> - and thousands of variables / scalar data arrays with consecutive >> names like >> - fwd_calc_0000.000000 >> - fwd_calc_0000.001000 >> - fwd_calc_0000.002000 >> - fwd_calc_0000.003000 >> - Regular expression that matches the wanted data arrays and extracts the >> numeric time value >> >> OUTPUT >> - Dataset with >> - geometry >> - the individual variables >> - Time dependence according to the variables that are named fitting >> for the regex >> >> The filter itself must be possible: TimeSource creates time index data >> out of nothing. >> I learned about vtkFileSeriesReader, but I don't want to save each >> timestep into a separate VTK file with its own geometry since the geometry >> stays the same. >> Such a filter would be very useful to many of us and has been awaited for >> a long time. >> >> Best regards >> Daniel Frisch >> Institut für Biomedizinische Messtechnik >> Karlsruher Institut für Technologie >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Christopher Neal > Research Engineer > Streamline Numerics, Inc. >
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