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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><A NAME=""><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After installation of VTK for use with purely C++ on windows, I have been struggling with how to get started with</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> reading my CFD datasets for visualization.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have done some research with HDF5</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> but having problem with</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">having to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">go into increasing number of third party</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">software</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> and libraries.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Recently, I learnt that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> H5utils</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> can convert</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> HDF5 datasets into the formats required by other free visualization software</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> like VTK. But it</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">’</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">s only for UNIX systems, though</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> it appears</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> help can come from</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://cygwin.com/"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">CygWin</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> .</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en">Can anyone help? I just want to</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> visualize</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> simple 2D/3D grid-based scalar and vector flow fields simulated</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> with</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en"> my native codes.</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca">Thanks in anticipation</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-ca">Emmanuel</SPAN></P>
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