# How to plot multiple individual particles moving?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-multiple-individual-particles-moving/7310
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-multiple-individual-particles-moving/7310 "2021-05-28T01:57:17Z")
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### Author: ![Maveryck](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/maveryck/32/6779_2.png) [@Maveryck](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Maveryck)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-multiple-individual-particles-moving/7310/1 "2021-05-28T01:57:17Z")

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Hello,  
I have 5 particles interacting with each other through a gravitational field. For each particle I create a text file particle\_n.dat that contains 7 columns: time, the coordinates x, y, z and the velocity in each direction u, v, w. Currently I’m plotting all of this with gnuplot from where I obtain an image as the attached one. (The problem is I need to create an image for every time-step, which I did with a loop but now I have like 1000 images!)

 ![Planets_711](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0f0fa86609e4be84138acd12de9da3d6db2a0b2c.png)

My question is: could I make this with paraview? to see the movement of all the particles at the same time  
Thank you!

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2021, 9:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-plot-multiple-individual-particles-moving/7310/2 "2021-05-28T09:37:54Z")

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Of course, create a polydata containing all points and lines between points.

There are many ways to do that, either outside or inside paraview. Are you able to read a .dat file in paraview ?