<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 11:52 AM Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org">jed@jedbrown.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:26 AM Jed Brown via petsc-dev <<br>
> <a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Patrick Sanan via petsc-dev <<a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>> writes:<br>
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>> > I was going to say something similar to Matt; to me it is worth the 1.5x<br>
>> > redundancy in the data if I can just view the output file with "doing<br>
>> > anything special". I have also done something similar to what you're<br>
>> > describing with save states, and it works fine; weirdly it seems like<br>
>> much<br>
>> > higher overhead than it is, though.<br>
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>> That overhead for 2D fields isn't a big deal for me, but how would you<br>
>> identify that three components should be interpreted as vectors? What<br>
>> if they are three chemical concentrations? Plotting as vectors would<br>
>> just be confusing in that case.<br>
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> In PyLith, we annotate solution fields with transformation properties like<br>
> this.<br>
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How do you "annotate" in a VTK file?<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>My intention was to have them annotated in the library, and then we only generate</div><div>VTK vectors for true vectors. For other fields we make a bunch of scalars.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>