# Interpolating 3D data (X, Y, Z, value)...and adding a time component.

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/interpolating-3d-data-x-y-z-value-and-adding-a-time-component/7307
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/interpolating-3d-data-x-y-z-value-and-adding-a-time-component/7307 "2021-05-27T22:58:18Z")
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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2021, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/interpolating-3d-data-x-y-z-value-and-adding-a-time-component/7307/11 "2021-08-17T08:12:41Z")

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Hi,  
Animation and temporal mode are a tricky thing in ParaView. The recommended mode is still `Snap to Time Step`. You can find some details in this (quite long) discussion:

> [@ParaView Time Refactoring](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-time-refactoring/5506/6):
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> Seems to me that all this is stemming from the fact that you want to link world-time with time in ParaView. As @Kenneth_Moreland mentioned, ParaVIew is not a video application. It’s not meant for editing videos. Thus, an expectation that time in the application is same as what the user-perceives in real world is not reasonable. In fact, I’d argue that we get rid of real-time mode entirely. It was only added as a toy since it was technically possible. In hindsight, it should have never been there…

As a workaround in your case, you can use the `Temporal Snap To Timestep` filter, with `Snap Mode` to `Next Below or Equal`.

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