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I'm trying to visualize uda data by converting them into nrrd for small test problems so I can use the binary version of SCIRun on Windows. (I was tempted to compile Uintah on cygwin but did not think it is feasible at this moment). I've looked at the notes on CSAFE/Uintah's web site and it looks like particle data cannot be extracted directly from nrrd. Does one need rtrt to do that or there are other ways? (I also found out that to use some of the extractX tools to extract particle variables that one needs to have p.particleID saved into uda.)
- Does scirun build under cygwin?
- Does the scirun binary support any sort of particle vis. That is, if the user does get particle data into nrrd format, is that going to do him any good insofar as seeing the data in the windows scirun binary?
Replies (on October 29, 2007)
First, scirun does not build under cygwin (it could probably be made to do so with some effort including forcing the system to choose the thirdparty libxml2 over cygwin's libxml2). It only builds on windows with Visual Studio after running CMake. Also, Uintah on windows is currently only supported with this method in the Uintah branch. I don't know enough about scirun, nrrds, and particles to answer the other question. Shouldn't he be able to run SCIRun with the Uintah package and use our ParticleVis modules?Well, I'm not sure what the windows scirun binary supports, I was doubtful that it supported Uintah, and given the on demand compilation, I don't see how a binary that did more than the very basics could be released.No, the windows binary on the SCIRun website does not support Uintah or dynamic compilation. However, it does have a set of built-in precompiled dynamic compilation libraries, which MIGHT suffice for a nrrd of particle variables. This would have to be tested of course. If somebody could send me such a nrrd, I could test it out.
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