<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Lukas,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I think Nathan's point was that there are other people working on new frontends currently, and they are smoothing over the instructions for how to make a new one.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Probably the best thing to do in the short run is to figure out how to read your data in using the Athena frontend. If you have a sample dataset you can post somewhere for us to try that would help.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I nominally maintain the Athena frontend, but I don't have a ton of time at the moment, so it sort of depends on how difficult it will be to make the changes in terms of how long it will take. If you're up for giving it a shot yourself I'm happy to give you pointers.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Is this uniformly gridded data, or something else?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Best,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">John</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br><div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">================================</span></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John ZuHone, Chandra/ACIS Operations<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">60 Garden St.</a>, MS-67 (w) <a dir="ltr" href="tel:617-496-1816" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/0">617-496-1816</a><br class=""><a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://1/1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/1">Cambridge, MA 02138</a>. (m) <a dir="ltr" href="tel:781-708-5004" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/2">781-708-5004</a></span></font></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:john.zuhone@cfa.harvard.edu" class="">john.zuhone@cfa.harvard.edu</a><br class=""><a dir="ltr" href="http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jzuhone" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jzuhone</a><br class="">================================</span></font><br class=""></div></div></div><div><br>On May 29, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Lukas Bystricky <<a href="mailto:lukasbystricky@gmail.com">lukasbystricky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>This is a followup to my question here (<a href="http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2016-May/007830.html">http://lists.spacepope.org/pipermail/yt-users-spacepope.org/2016-May/007830.html</a>). Apologies, but I can't seem to figure out how to reply since I was never sent an e-mail for either my question or Nathan's response. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm trying to load a legacy VTK file into YT (see format description <a href="http://www.vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf">http://www.vtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/file-formats.pdf</a>), but I when I try:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ds = yt.load("file.vtk")</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I get the error:</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">traceback (most recent call last):
File "visualization.py", line 3, in <module>
ds = yt.load("file.vtk")
File "C:\Users\Dave\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\yt\convenience.py", line 84, in load
return candidates[0](*args, **kwargs)
File
"C:\Users\Dave\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\yt\frontends\athena\data_structures.py",
line 470, in __init__
Dataset.__init__(self, filename, dataset_type,
units_override=units_override)
File
"C:\Users\Dave\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\yt\data_objects\static_output.py",
line 190, in __init__
self._parse_parameter_file()
File
"C:\Users\Dave\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\yt\frontends\athena\data_structures.py",
line 528, in _parse_parameter_file
self.domain_left_edge = grid['left_edge']
KeyError: 'left_edge'</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Nathan Goldbaum pointed out is his answer that YT can read in VTK files from Athena. I looked into this and it seems like the difference between my file and Athena's files is that mine are ASCII while Athena's are binary. Is that right? </font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On another note, Nathan also pointed out there are people working on a frontend for the VTK format I'm using. Could I provide any help there?</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks again, and sorry for the double posting. </font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lukas</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre></pre></div></div>
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