# how to animate over row in a csv file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-animate-over-row-in-a-csv-file/6590
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-animate-over-row-in-a-csv-file/6590 "2021-03-03T07:19:09Z")
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### Author: ![uhapppy](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/uhapppy/32/6034_2.png) [@uhapppy](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/uhapppy)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-animate-over-row-in-a-csv-file/6590/1 "2021-03-03T07:19:09Z")

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i have data of 3D point from a N-Body simulation the data of the 3D point are in a csv file i am able to plot the point from this file the problem is that the data are from 5000 body but my csv file have 2.5million row so i would like to animate to see point 5000 by 5000 for exemple row 0 to 5000 represent the initial position of the 5000 body row 5000 to 10000 represent the position of each body after a time interval dt and so on so basicaly i would like to see the movement of these body by ploting row 0-5000 then ploting row 5000-10000 then 10000-15000 …