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Demonstrates the use of the h5py, numpy, and VTK Python modules to write a VTK structured data file.
"""
Demonstrates the use of the h5py, numpy, and VTK Python modules to write a VTK
structured data file.
"""
import vtk
import numpy as np
import h5py
fname = "chkpt.0012.h5"
dset = "prim/rho"
h5f = h5py.File(fname, 'r')
data = h5f[dset].value
data -= data.min()
data /= data.max()
data_matrix = np.zeros(data.shape, dtype=np.uint8, order='F')
data_matrix[...] = data * 256
Nx, Ny, Nz = data_matrix.shape
dataImporter = vtk.vtkImageImport()
data_string = data_matrix.tostring()
dataImporter.CopyImportVoidPointer(data_matrix, data_matrix.nbytes)
dataImporter.SetDataScalarTypeToUnsignedChar()
dataImporter.SetNumberOfScalarComponents(1)
dataImporter.SetDataExtent(0, Nx-1, 0, Ny-1, 0, Nz-1)
dataImporter.SetWholeExtent(0, Nx-1, 0, Ny-1, 0, Nz-1)
writer = vtk.vtkDataSetWriter()
writer.SetInputConnection(dataImporter.GetOutputPort())
writer.SetFileName('output.vtk')
writer.SetFileTypeToBinary()
writer.Update()
writer.Write()
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