Hi! I have a series of Gaussian .cube files in which atomic positions vary from file to file. I would like to make a visualization showing how electron density/molecular orbitals change as a function of bond length in a diatomic molecule. While I have had success visualizing both individual and overlapping cube files, I am having trouble visualizing a series of cube files as a time series.
I have formatted the filenames with the convention N.foo.cube, and the Paraview file picker dialogue recognizes the list of files as a group. Despite this, after I open the group no time-series is added to the animation time manager. Are time-series not supported for this file-type, or am I missing something?
The Guassian reader does not support reading time series directly (vtkGaussianCubeReader2) or indirectly using ParaView’s generic time series mechanism. I suspect it wouldn’t be too difficult to add. Would you mind creating an issue at https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues with a request to add time series support for Gaussian files? I can’t guarantee it will be implemented in a certain time frame, but it will keep the issue from being forgotten.
Beyond that, would you be interested in contributing code changes to make time series support possible?
