- the original intention was to avoid vtp output when the clouds are
empty anyhow. However, it is useful for post-processing to have
clouds with zero parcels (eg, before the start of injection).
Pruning of empty clouds is now an option in the vtkCloud dictionary
controls, with the default being false (no pruning). This represents
a non-breaking change in behaviour since it generates more output
than previously.
Example,
{
type vtkCloud;
//- Suppress writing of empty clouds (default: false)
prune true;
}
- this provides easily sortable names.
The time information is available via the corresponding .series
file, which can also be loaded directly with ParaView 5.5 or later.
For further redundancy, time information is saved in the first XML
comment inside of the .vtp files. For example,
<!-- cloud=limestoneCloud1 time=0.005 index=200 -->
