[Users] yt visualization software for Carpet hdf5 data?

[Ian Hinder]

On 9 Mar 2012, at 21:03, Bruno Giacomazzo wrote:

> Hi,
> 	did anyone have a look at how to read Carpet 3D HDF5 data into the yt visualization software? In case you don't know it, it's a public-available python based visualization software: http://yt-project.org/
> 
> 	I recently saw a movie done with yt with volume rendering using data from an Athena simulations done by a PhD student here at JILA (the quality looked similar to Amira to me). He told me that one of the yt developers (Sam Skillman) is always interested to support other data formats, but before contacting him I wanted to check if anybody else had a look into it.

One possible route would be for CarpetIOHDF5 to output in the xdmf format.  Do you know if yt supports this format?  The idea is to write an XML file alongside the HDF5 file which describes the schema of the metadata file for visualisation purposes.  This should be much easier than writing and maintaining a plugin for Carpet for every visualisation package.

We have a ticket open about supporting this in Carpet:

	https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/580

but we don't currently have the ability to write such a file.

> 
> Cheers,
> Bruno
> 
> Dr. Bruno Giacomazzo
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