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Message #20734
Re: VTKFile --> ParaViewFile
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To:
Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
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From:
"Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:01:57 +0000
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Cc:
dolfin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On 17/01/11 18:00, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:39:07PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
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>> 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.
>>>
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>> The bulk of what is written to file is in a VTK format.
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>> It could be split into 'ParaViewFile' and 'VTKFile'.
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>> Garth
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> Is it the .vtu part which is VTK and the index file (.pvd) which is a
> ParaView format?
Yes. There are a few more VTK files that are written when running in
parallel.
Garth
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> --
> Anders
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