[Paraview] Visualising time-dependent field and time-dependent scalars at the same time

[Berk Geveci]

If you want to store values that are not associated with points or
cells, you can store them in the field data. ParaView reads field data
with everything else. The question is, what do you want to do with
those values after you load them?

-berk

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Daniele Avitabile
<d.avitabile at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I might totally unaware of what you are talking about, but do you mean I
> will have to store s1(t0) and s2(t0) together with u(x,y,z,t0)?
>
> Here u(x,y,z,t0) is a scalar field at time t0 (i.e. nx times ny times nz
> data points), whereas s1(t0) is *a single value* at time t0. How can I get
> ParaView to read *a single value* in a legacy vtk file?
>
> Best.
>
> Daniele
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Michael Jackson
> <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Dec 18, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Daniele Avitabile wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I have a time-dependent field u(x,y,z,t) and two scalars s1(t), s2(t). At
>>> the time being, for each time frame I have a separate .vtk file
>>>
>>> u(x,y,z,t0) -> step_0000.vtk
>>> u(x,y,z,t1) -> step_0001.vtk
>>> u(x,y,z,t2) -> step_0002.vtk
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> whereas the corresponding scalar quantities are stored synchronously in a
>>> single column-formatted file
>>> s1(t0)   s2(t0)
>>> s1(t1)   s2(t1)
>>> s1(t2)   s2(t2)
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> I usually visualise the .vtk file and animate u. Since s1(t) and s2(t)
>>> are influencing the overall dynamics, I wold need to looad and visualise s1
>>> and s2 at the same time, possibly animate them synchronously.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to achieve this? If you have any smart suggestions
>>> as to how store s1(t) and s2(t) within the .vtk file I would be grateful.
>>> Please note that s1 and s2 are *not* probation points of the field u, but
>>> they are totally diferent quantities.
>>>
>>> Best.
>>>
>>> Daniele
>>>
>>
>>
>> Can you store s1 and s2 as scalars of the vtk data set? This means it
>> would have to be included in each vtk file but would solve the problem.
>>
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
>> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>>
>>
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