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Re: VTKFile --> ParaViewFile

 

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:39:07PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
>
> On 17/01/11 16:14, Anders Logg wrote:
> > Why is the PVD format implementation named VTKFile?
> >
> > As far as I understand, PVD = ParaView Data format so a better name
> > would be ParaViewFile.
> >
>
> The bulk of what is written to file is in a VTK format.
>
> It could be split into 'ParaViewFile' and 'VTKFile'.
>
> Garth

Is it the .vtu part which is VTK and the index file (.pvd) which is a
ParaView format?

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Anders



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