# How to Use the Stream Tracer filter for a VTK animation

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-the-stream-tracer-filter-for-a-vtk-animation/2284
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 23, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-the-stream-tracer-filter-for-a-vtk-animation/2284 "2019-07-23T17:22:21Z")
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### Author: ![Raychel\_Bahnick](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/raychel_bahnick/32/1689_2.png) [@Raychel\_Bahnick](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Raychel_Bahnick)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-use-the-stream-tracer-filter-for-a-vtk-animation/2284/1 "2019-07-23T17:22:21Z")

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Attached is a screenshot of the animation I created in paraview. My data is 1178 points, each point has 400 vtk files (each vtk file is a new time step) so the animation is playing the 400 vtks in a sequence. This dataset has x,y,z coordinates so how should I input the data so that the Stream Tracer filter can be used?

 ![Screenshot.png](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8e8a0a9498248142619dd607f203ded0934b8b85.png)