New vtkFDSReader for Fire Dynamics Simulator output#

You can now read in output from the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS, https://pages.nist.gov/fds-smv/) into VTK. The reader is based on reading the *.smv meta-data file to orchestrate the reading of all the other files. It supports:

  • Grids: reading in the extents of the entire simulation domains

  • Devices: reading in data from so called “devices” and representing it as point data

  • HRR: reading in globally integrated data as a table

  • Slices: subsets of the entire grids with point data on them

  • Boundaries: subsets of the grids that represent obstacles or boundaries in the simulation

The output of the reader is a vtkPartitionedDataSetCollection divided into the sections above.