<html><head><base href="x-msg://2/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Gilly,<div><br></div><div>Xdmf works by putting the whole time series description in a single file. The details of the model and XMF file format can be found here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://xdmf.org/index.php/XDMF_Model_and_Format">http://xdmf.org/index.php/XDMF_Model_and_Format</a></div><div><br></div><div>All of the specifications are there, but I'm not sure there's a nice example of what they call a "temporal collection". (You can also do multi-block datasets with "spatial collection" or do combinations like "temporal collection of spatial collections".) There are many ways to indicate the time, so take a look at that page, but here's one example of three time steps of an unstructured grid:</div><div><br></div><div>========</div><div><div><Xdmf></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Domain Name="MSI"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="CellsTime" GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Time Value="0.000" /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="1" NumberOfElements="10007"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Topology></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="10007 3" Format="HDF"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>test1.h5:/iter=0000000000/cells/position</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></DataItem></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Geometry></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="cells_conc_ccl19"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem NumberType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="10007 1" Format="HDF"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>test1.h5:/iter=0000000000/cells/conc_ccl19</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></DataItem></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Attribute></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Time Value="0.010" /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="1" NumberOfElements="10016"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Topology></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="10016 3" Format="HDF"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>test1.h5:/iter=0000000001/cells/position</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></DataItem></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Geometry></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="cells_conc_ccl19"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem NumberType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="10016 1" Format="HDF"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>test1.h5:/iter=0000000001/cells/conc_ccl19</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></DataItem></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Attribute></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Grid Name="Cells" GridType="Uniform"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Time Value="0.020" /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Topology TopologyType="Polyvertex" NodesPerElement="1" NumberOfElements="10017"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Topology></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="10017 3" Format="HDF"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>test1.h5:/iter=0000000002/cells/position</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></DataItem></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Geometry></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><Attribute AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Node" Name="cells_conc_ccl19"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><DataItem NumberType="Float" Precision="4" Dimensions="10017 1" Format="HDF"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>test1.h5:/iter=0000000002/cells/conc_ccl19</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></DataItem></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Attribute></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Grid></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></Domain></div><div></Xdmf></div><div>=================</div><div><br></div><div>Let us know if you have any problems with it. There is also an Xdmf mailing list if you have very specific Xdmf questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Talk to you later,</div><div>-Eric</div></div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Eric E Monson</div><div>Duke Visualization Technology Group</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></span>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:20 AM, <<a href="mailto:Guillaume.Duclaux@csiro.au">Guillaume.Duclaux@csiro.au</a>> <<a href="mailto:Guillaume.Duclaux@csiro.au">Guillaume.Duclaux@csiro.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I’m trying to open a timeserie collection of hdf5 files in PV (3.8–RC2) and it doesn’t seem to work for me...<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I first tried opening a timeserie (XDMF...xmf) ‘by hand’. It seems ok, but when I try to use the VCR controls the renderer is still rendering the same scene.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Also, I had a look at the trace created when opening timeseries and compared the XDMFReader property encoding with other VTK Readers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">+ the XDMFReader FileName property has only one argument (not the list I expected):<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">- XDMF_00 = XDMFReader( FileName='C:<a href="smb://%PATH%//XDMF.00001.xmf'" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">\\%PATH%\\XDMF.00001.xmf'</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">+ and for comparison, the XMLPartitionedStructuredGridReader encode an array with the list of files with similar extensions present in the directory:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 36pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">- fields_0000 = XMLPartitionedStructuredGridReader( FileName=[‘C:<a href="smb://%PATH%//fields.00000.pvts'," style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">\\%PATH%\\fields.00000.pvts',</a>C:<a href="smb://%PATH%//fields.00001.pvts']" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">\\%PATH%\\fields.00001.pvts']</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The user doco (<a href="http://paraview.org/OnlineHelpCurrent/XdmfReader.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://paraview.org/OnlineHelpCurrent/XdmfReader.html</a>) describes the FileName property value has to be a single file name. Is there a way to change this so one could load hdf5 timeseries?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">i.e. don’t get an error message when trying: XDMF_00 = XDMFReader( FileName=['C:<a href="smb://%PATH%//XDMF.00001.xmf'," style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">\\%PATH%\\XDMF.00001.xmf',</a>'C:<a href="smb://%PATH%//XDMF.000010.xmf']" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">\\%PATH%\\XDMF.000010.xmf']</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; 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