Tutorial: Put 3D Vector Field data into ParaView

ParaView is open-source software for 3D visualization - but getting data in is non-trivial.
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Updated 12 Jan 2011

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I spent some time working out how to export data from Matlab (specifically a 3D vector field) in a way which could then successfully imported into ParaView (www.paraview.org).
I made this tutorial to summarize the method I found - which I hope others will also find useful.

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Daniel Gallichan (2024). Tutorial: Put 3D Vector Field data into ParaView (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/30011-tutorial-put-3d-vector-field-data-into-paraview), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.0.0.0