Ethan- I think writing an Xdmf file that points to the datasets in an HDF5 file is probably easier than creating a viewer. For PyLith we write the HDF5 file and a corresponding Xdmf file. This allows us to simply open the Xdmf file in ParaView; I think VisIt supports this as well.
Brad On 07/07/2011 10:12 AM, Ethan Coon wrote: > The downside of this option is that, in order for hdf5 files to work in > anything but python (which is smart enough to use introspection on the > file itself) you need a special viewer (the VisIt people call this a > "flavor" of HDF5), see > > http://visitusers.org/index.php?title=VisIt_and_HDF5 > > These work on both VisIt and Paraview, but I've never tried to write one > myself, so I don't know how ugly they are. They basically specify the > layout of the hdf5 file. > > Note that if you go with the HDF5 option, you'll likely want to move to > petsc-dev, which includes more HDF5 functionality, such as groups.
