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Could any one tell me whether it is possible to animate particle movements in ParaView? I am referring the post two years ago (see below). I was able to use foamToVTK to convert the foam data to paraview format and visialuze them in paraview. However, I need to use "glyph" to filter every frame (time step), and I don't know how to animate the spearate "glyphs". Is that even possible?

I also tried other approaches, i.e. build ParaView 3.3 with the reader, but I wasn't able to compile Cmake, which is requried for building ParaView ... Is it possible to build the reader alone and use the _precomplied_ ParaView 3.2? I doubt it.

The dxFoam approach seemed quite completed too according to what I undersand now: first download dxFoam with earlier version of OF and compile, and then download dxFoamExec, and then install OpenDX ...

These are the three ways I know of to visualize largangian particle, after searching the forum. The first one is best suited for my case right now, except I can't animate it right now. Are there any easier ways to do that? or am I not understanding these alternatives correctly? Any hint is greatly appreciated.


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By Bernhard Gschaider on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 02:20 pm: Edit Post

paraFoam can't do it, but paraview can. Look at
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Main_FAQ#Postpr ocessing_of_Lagrangian_particles
(which references http://www.cfd-online.com/cgi-bin/Op...show.cgi?1/853)