Hi, This question is not really very important but I find this very strange. I saved two vtsStructuredPoints data sets with the same dimension and spacing but one with scalar type of VTK_UNSIGNED_CHAR and the other with VTK_UNSIGNED_SHORT. The strange thing is that the size of the vtk file with VTK_UNSIGNED_CHAR was almost twice that with VTK_UNSIGNED_SHORT scalars. I could have bid a lot of money that it should be the other way around!! Am I doing something wrong or is it that vtk saves the two in two different format and hence the file size ambiguity? Thanks, Asad