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Mike, <BR>
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Thanks for your reply and assistance so far! To be more specific, our data is a 1-dimensional times series of water suface elevations. At each time step we have water heights recorded for the length of the computational domain. The columns in our excel file represents the changing water profile for each time step and the rows represent the spatial step. The aim is to generate a 2D animation showing a wave propagating along the computational domain.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Jamie.<BR>
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<BR>> CC: paraview@paraview.org<BR>> From: mike.jackson@bluequartz.net<BR>> To: j.ruprecht@hotmail.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] paraview: uploading data files<BR>> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:17:42 -0500<BR>> <BR>> You will probably have to write some sort of custom reader for your <BR>> data. This can be just a simple stand-alone program that converts your <BR>> data into the .pvd file or you can make the reader a ParaView plugin <BR>> so that ParaView can open your data file(s).<BR>> <BR>> The first thing you will probably want to do is export the data from <BR>> excel into a CSV file for easier reading.<BR>> <BR>> Next you can write the code for your reader. If you can give some more <BR>> information about what exactly the data in the xls files represents <BR>> the community may be able to guide you further. For example is the <BR>> data xyz coordinates for a triangular mesh? Is it voxel data? Is it <BR>> image data?<BR>> <BR>> There are lots of examples for all of those around the net and from <BR>> various folks on the list (including myself).<BR>> <BR>> Cheers<BR>> _________________________________________________________<BR>> Mike Jackson mike.jackson@bluequartz.net<BR>> BlueQuartz Software www.bluequartz.net<BR>> Principal Software Engineer Dayton, Ohio<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Jamie Ruprecht wrote:<BR>> <BR>> ><BR>> > Hi everybody!<BR>> ><BR>> > I am also new to this forum and new to paraview and python coding.<BR>> ><BR>> > I am currently looking to create an animation of shallow water waves <BR>> > using paraview, but I am having some trouble uploading my data files.<BR>> > At this stage, my data files are in excel files (.xls) and I am just <BR>> > wondering how I should go about converting them to paraview data <BR>> > files (.pvd) or the like, so that I may create an animation.<BR>> ><BR>> > Any help would be much appreciated.<BR>> ><BR>> > Jamie.<BR>> ><BR>> > Sell your car for just $40 at CarPoint.com.au It's simple! <BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > ParaView mailing list<BR>> > ParaView@paraview.org<BR>> > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview<BR>> <BR><BR><br /><hr />Find great deals on eBay <a href='http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Frover%2Eebay%2Ecom%2Frover%2F1%2F705%2D10129%2D5668%2D323%2F4%3Fid%3D10&_t=763807330&_r=hotmailTAGLINES&_m=EXT' target='_new'>Net yourself a bargain</a></body>
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