Hi Burlen, <div><br></div><div>I am hoping that Utkarsh could help figure things out. </div><div>If you elaborate more on what you do and what happens, I could at least share my experience. </div><div>I use *.vtr type files to generate particle trace and pathlines. </div>

<div>The problem I have/had is that as soon as I apply any Temporal Filter to the *.vtr file series, it either gives me error message or crashes. </div><div>I was very very very lucky that I found out that for the same dataset, if I use *.vtu format, no problems or crashing occurred. So, for now, I just used a Clip filter to extract my data into a *.vtu format and rewrite them, re-read them and do the ParticleTrace and ParticlePathlines. </div>

<div>That was my experience. </div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if I could be of any help. </div><div>Good luck, </div><div>Mohamad</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Burlen Loring <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bloring@lbl.gov">bloring@lbl.gov</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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    Hi Mohamad,<br>
    <br>
    I&#39;ve been quietly following this thread in hopes that your interest
    in particle tracing will spark a response from the developers. I was
    unable to generate pathlines in image data in vti format I beleive I
    was using 3.10.0 at the time. It was not clear to me if there was a
    bug or if I had the pipeline built incorrectly out of my own
    ignorance on how this works in PV. I posted a question with test
    data hoping for some advise,
    <a href="http://paraview.markmail.org/message/ek67niwr7xagaajz?q=burlen+order:date-backward&amp;page=15" target="_blank">http://paraview.markmail.org/message/ek67niwr7xagaajz?q=burlen+order:date-backward&amp;page=15</a>

    however I did not receive any reply.<br>
    <br>
    Burlen<div><div class="h5"><br>
    <br>
    On 04/07/2012 05:28 AM, Mohamad M. Nasr-Azadani wrote:
    </div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">I apologize for some mistakes. 
      <div>The Powerpoint I was refering to can be found here. </div>
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      <div>Best, </div>
      <div>Mohamad</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Mohamad
          M. Nasr-Azadani <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mmnasr@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmnasr@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>
          wrote:<br>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all, 
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>This is what I doing: </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>1- Load the PVD file (which holds the real time
              information associated with each *.vtr file)</div>
            <div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;</div>
              <div> &lt;VTKFile type=&quot;Collection&quot; version=&quot;0.1&quot;
                byte_order=&quot;LittleEndian&quot;
                compressor=&quot;vtkZLibDataCompressor&quot;&gt;  </div>
              <div>   &lt;Collection&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;0.0&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_0.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;0.2&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_1.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;0.4&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_2.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;0.6&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_3.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;0.8&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_4.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;1.0&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_5.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;1.2&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_6.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;1.4&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_7.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;1.6&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_8.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;1.8&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_9.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>    &lt;DataSet timestep=&quot;2.0&quot; group=&quot;&quot; part=&quot;0&quot;
                file=&quot;vel_vec_10.vtr&quot;/&gt;</div>
              <div>  &lt;/Collection&gt;</div>
              <div>&lt;/VTKFile&gt;</div>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
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            <div>2- Click on my data and create a &quot;Temporal Cache&quot; with
              &quot;Cache Size=2&quot;. </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>3- From &quot;Sources&quot;, I create a &quot;Line&quot;. </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>4- Click on TemporalCache1 and create a
              ParticleTracer. </div>
            <div>     When the menu pops up, I choose </div>
            <div>             a) Input: TemporalCache1</div>
            <div>             b) Source: Line1</div>
            <div>
                   Right after I click Ok, this is the message I get
              (note that this message is shown even before giving me the
              chance to change any flags on the &quot;Properties&quot; section
              related to the &quot;ParticleTracer1&quot;.</div>
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                      <p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Courier;font-size:9pt;color:rgb(128,0,0)">/home/utkarsh/Kitware/superbuild/paraview/src/paraview/VTK/Filtering/vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline.cxx,
                          line 934</span></p>
                      <p style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Courier;font-size:9pt;color:rgb(128,0,0)">vtkPVPostFilterExecutive (0x4db4870): No
                          maximum number of pieces has been set in the
                          information for output port 0 on algorithm
                          vtkPVPostFilter(0x4777fd0).</span></p>
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            <div>Luckily, Paraview does not crash and I can continue. </div>
            <div>After doing some research, I am guessing that this has
              something to do with the time conflicts (Pipeline fed into
              the filter and the animation viewer time). </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><b>Observation:</b> Right after I create the
              ParticleTracer and receive the error message, the time
              shown in the animation viewer is increased from &quot;0.0&quot; to
              &quot;0.2&quot;. Why? </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>5- Recommended by the powerpoint, I set  </div>
            <div>         a) Time Step: True (1) </div>
            <div>         b) Ignore Pipeline Time: True (1)</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>6- Now, I use &quot;Animation View&quot; as directed by the same
              powerpoint to feed the time into the ParticleTracer1
              filter. </div>
            <div>         a) Mode: Sequence</div>
            <div>         b) Create a keyframe for &quot;ParticleTracer1&quot;.
              Double click on the bar and set: </div>
            <div>
              <div>                   1: time: 0.2, (interpolation
                ramp), value: 1</div>
            </div>
            <div>
              <div>                   2: time: 1.8, (), value: 9 </div>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Note: I have varied all the combinations listed above
              to include/exclude the last/first steps. No luck! Nothing
              really happening. </div>
            <div>         </div>
            <div>7- Play animation. Result: nothing happening? What is
              going on? </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div><b>Observation: Using Paraview 3.8, I could see the
                animation without adjusting any parameters in the
                &quot;Animation View&quot; menu. Just the annoying error message
                was shown. However, I could do the same thing with
                Paraview 3.14, but it crashes after a few timesteps. </b></div>
            <div><b><br>
              </b></div>
            <div>Anybody could share some hints on how to go about
              this? </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Thanks, </div>
            <div>Mohanad</div>
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