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- A set of input files that are numbered sequentially. In that case we can get a temporal animation.
- A single file. In this case we can animate the camera to visit certain regions of the rendered results in order to show something interesting that is happening
- In this example I also used a feature called "save state..." which will write all your interactions with Paraview in the current session to disk. It is very useful to load a particular set of interactions and improve them.
Paraview and OpenSees
- The PVD recorder works, yay!
- The PVD recorder does not work on parallel, duh!
- However, we can make a very simple python script to translate the input + outputs into a suitable format. I was almost there last week, but when trying to re-write the code to be nicer I erased most of it. Anyways, it can be done and it can be an alternative to the recorder.
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