[Dune-devel] [Dune-Commit] [Commit] dune-grid - 545f73a: Start working on a backup restore facility in YaspGrid

[Oliver Sander]

Am 02.10.2014 um 13:20 schrieb Oliver Sander:
> Am 02.10.2014 um 13:10 schrieb Oliver Sander:
>> Am 02.10.2014 um 13:02 schrieb Dominic Kempf:
>>> Hey Oliver,
>>> Yes, I was writing my very own ascii thing. I mad several assumptions when
>>> thinking about the format:
>>> 1) All grids to be restored were saved through the same facility. For all
>>> other uses, one should consider the dgfparser.
>>> 2) The amount of data to be stored is rather small (even for tensorproduct
>>> grids)
>>> 3) The output should be readable by the human eye.
>>> With these in mind, I decided, that a self-defined self-explanatory ascii
>>> format will be most the most efficient (in the sense of coding time) way to
>>> achieve it. If you provide good reasons for a more standard format, I could
>>> reconsider though.
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>> Hi Dominic,
>> I have no compelling reason for your use case, I am simply not a fan of reinventing
>> yet another file format.  Earlier this week I wrote VTK file reading for an application
>> of mine, and that was simple and pretty using tinyxml2.
>> If you think that "for all other uses, one should consider the dgfparser",
>> how about using the dgf format for backup/restore right away?
> 

[apologies for the previous empty mail]

It appears that the vtk format also supports tensor-product grids natively
("RectilinearGrid").  Using that would allow to visualize backup files in
Paraview.
Best,
Oliver


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>> Best,
>> Oliver
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>>> Best,
>>> Dominic
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Oliver Sander <sander at igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dominic,
>>>> great you're working on the restoring facility.  From browsing the commit
>>>> logs it seems like
>>>> you are inventing a new ascii format.  Did you consider something
>>>> standard, like XML or similar?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Oliver
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