Failure with .h5 time series

ParaView Support
1

Hello everyone,

I want to visualize a 3d cubic dataset stored in h.5 files named as following : test_0001.h5, test_0002.h5 etc. I’m using Paraview 5.12 on Linux, the application manages to recognize a group of files, but, when I try to open the group, only one of the file appears in the pipeline. I’ve read a bit on related topics, I’ve tried to add a .series file in the same folder, it doesn’t change anything.
Is this something that can be done ?

Thanks in advance,
Procyon

2

P.S. here is the .series I’ve used :

test.h5.series (299 Bytes)

3

.h5 is not a format, its a container. Which HDF5 specification is this using ?

4

I hope this answer the question :

HDF5 “test_0000.h5” {
GROUP “/” {
DATASET “pim” {
DATATYPE H5T_IEEE_F64LE
DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 128, 128, 128 ) / ( 128, 128, 128 ) }
}
DATASET “pp” {
DATATYPE H5T_IEEE_F64LE
DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 128, 128, 128 ) / ( 128, 128, 128 ) }
}
DATASET “pre” {
DATATYPE H5T_IEEE_F64LE
DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 128, 128, 128 ) / ( 128, 128, 128 ) }
}
}
}

5

Well not really. Unless this correspond to an actual standard, you will need to implement your own reader using python and the libhdf5.

There is no “Raw HDF5 Reader” in ParaView afaik.

6

Would you have any suggestion for an actual standard specification ?

In any case thank you for your comprehensive reply.

7

They are many hdf5 implementation supported by ParaView.

  • VTKHDF
  • xdmf
  • Flash
  • Fluent CFF
  • Converge CFD
  • Chombo
  • GTC
  • …