<div>Hi Valdo,</div><div><br></div>ParaView can definitely be used to visualize tabular data. However, very few people use the VTK file format for that - in fact that example is the only one I have seen and it was created for the VTK book a long time ago. If folks feel like they want to use the VTK format rather than CSV and such, we can fix this issue.<div>
<br></div><div>-berk<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:29 AM, David E DeMarle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank">dave.demarle@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">VTK and ParaView were designed initially for visualizing spatially<br>
defined data, and it is still what they are best at.<br>
<br>
The modern mechanism in VTK for working with general data is to use<br>
the vtkTable and vtkGraph data structures. These have their<br>
corresponding readers/writers and file formats. The financial data<br>
example predates them and isn't as well supported in ParaView.<br>
<br>
The simplest way to get non spatially oriented data into ParaView is<br>
to simply open up a CSV (comma separated values) text file.<br>
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On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Valdo Meyer <<a href="mailto:stan1313@hotmail.fr" target="_blank">stan1313@hotmail.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ok, I understand but does it mean that PV is supposed not to be used for<br>
> visualizing data that are not spacially defined?<br>
> I have time series of global simulation quantities, such as energy, mean<br>
> pressure and so, and I would like to draw a set of y=f(t) curves using the<br>
> Plot filter, how could I built an appropriate datafile?<br>
><br>
> ________________________________<br>
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:31:50 -0400<br>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] VTK legacy file format supported?<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:berk.geveci@kitware.com" target="_blank">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:stan1313@hotmail.fr" target="_blank">stan1313@hotmail.fr</a><br>
> CC: <a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Try opening one that actually has a mesh, like office.binary.vtk. That one<br>
> is a bad example for ParaView in that it doesn't have any mesh associated<br>
> with it, just bunch of arrays. We could make ParaView support that file<br>
> pretty easily but it has never been a priority. Overall, support for the<br>
> legacy VTK format is there and we don't plan on dropping it ever.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Fred Fred <<a href="mailto:stan1313@hotmail.fr" target="_blank">stan1313@hotmail.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello,<br>
> I try to load financial.vtk - a legacy file from the VTKdata set - but PV<br>
> does not seem to recognize the format!?<br>
><br>
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