[Paraview] PV3: Animation from legacy VTK timewise files

[Berk Geveci]

This is already in the CVS ParaView. I will write a wiki page but to
summarize, ParaView automatically detects certain patterns (foo_1.vtk,
foo_2.vtk, foo1.vtk, foo2vtk etc) and groups them together in the file
dialog. If you select the whole group, it is opened as a file series.
You can then animate  and treat the VTK reader like any other time
aware reader. For now, this works for legacy vtk files only.

-berk


On 8/25/07, Jason Hoogland <jdhoogland at wbmpl.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Until now you couldn't. We just implemented this. I will post more
> > information soon.
> >
> > -berk
>
> Hi Berk,
>
> Awesome.
>
> Is this feature in pre-3 versions?
>
> Can you suggest an eta on this?  I have an urgent need to animate
> transient motion of glyphs from each time step, pv3 is more fun to work in.
>
> hoogs
>
> >
> >
> > On 8/20/07, Jason Hoogland <jdhoogland at wbmpl.com.au> wrote:
> > > This is probably really simple but I can't figure it out.  Suppose I
> > have
> > > a directory filled with time solutions (from OpenFOAM), e.g.:
> > >
> > > MyRun_1.vtk
> > > MyRun_2.vtk
> > > MyRun_3.vtk
> > > ...
> > > MyRun_100.vtk
> > >
> > > How to I get PV to recognise this as a time sequence?  In the "Open
> > File"
> > > dialog the list of files is folded under an entry:
> > >
> > > MyRun_..vtk
> > >
> > > but when I open this rather than a particular file such as
> > MyRun_2.vtk, it
> > > loads just the single, first MyRun_1.vtk and doesn't seem to
> > recognise the
> > > sequence.  What should I do?  In PV2.6 I wrote a translator for some
> > other
> > > cfd software that uses the VTK XML format and created a single XML
> > > collection list, which allowed time sequences to be recognised.  I
> > thought
> > > there must be an existing method, however.
> > >
> > > hoogs
> > >
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