# How to build kymograph?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-kymograph/4514
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-kymograph/4514 "2020-06-04T17:22:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@OleksiiR](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/OleksiiR)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-kymograph/4514/1 "2020-06-04T17:22:55Z")
Hello!
Is it possible to build kymographs in ParaView? I mean plots where one of the spatial axes represents evolution in time.
Kind regards,
Oleksii Rukhlenko
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-kymograph/4514/2 "2020-06-04T17:46:29Z")
There are `Plot Data Over Time`, `Plot Selection Over Time`, and `Plot Global Variables Over Time` filters. Do any of these do what you want?
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### Author:  [@OleksiiR](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/OleksiiR)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-kymograph/4514/3 "2020-06-04T18:29:04Z")
No, because these instruments create 1D plots, while I am talking about 2D plots, i.e. one axis representing spatial coordinate, second axis representing time, and color representing value of the variable. This is a typical instrument for analysis of spatio-temporal biological data ([https://imagej.net/Generate\_and\_exploit\_Kymographs](https://imagej.net/Generate_and_exploit_Kymographs)), and when comparing modelling with experiments it would be convenient to present modelling data in the same way.
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-kymograph/4514/4 "2020-06-04T20:06:15Z")
ParaView does not have a direct view to do what you are looking for, and there is no straightforward way to reinterpret a spacial axis as time. There might be a way to use ParaView’s animation and temporal handling tools to get what you want, but that depends on the structure of your data.
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### Author:  [@OleksiiR](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/OleksiiR)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-kymograph/4514/5 "2020-06-12T15:02:57Z")
Thanks for the reply. That’s pity, but I have found a workaround.
I created sequence of grayscale images in ParaView using “Save Animation” tool, and then imported these images into ImageJ which allows making kymographs from the sequence of images.
Kind regards,
Oleksii