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noirb / FuLBLINKy

A Fluid-focused data visualizer for vector fields and other simulation data
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Binary Input Format #4

Open noirb opened 9 years ago

noirb commented 9 years ago

Implement a reader for at least one binary input file format (probably NetCDF: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ )

noirb commented 8 years ago

NetCDF appears to have somewhat spotty support for building their C++ lib on Windows with Visual Studio. HDF5 (https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/) appears to offer similar features with better cross-platform support, and due to NetCDF4's file format being based on HDF5 we can probably expect that people using the NetCDF library to save their output data can easily produce something compatible with the HDF5 library.

HDF5 may be a better format to implement now, with future work focusing on adding support for NetCDF4 and any other formats.