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Tecplot Animation Instruction

1. The document describes the file format and process for creating a 1D animation using data files in Tecplot. 2. The data file contains zone definitions with the number of data points and data values. Variable names must match the number of data columns. 3. In Tecplot, the data file is loaded, zones are assigned colors/shapes, the x-y axes are defined using variables, and all zones are plotted together before animating through the zones.

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Tecplot Animation Instruction

1. The document describes the file format and process for creating a 1D animation using data files in Tecplot. 2. The data file contains zone definitions with the number of data points and data values. Variable names must match the number of data columns. 3. In Tecplot, the data file is loaded, zones are assigned colors/shapes, the x-y axes are defined using variables, and all zones are plotted together before animating through the zones.

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Data file format for 1D animation by TECPLOT variables = "x1","x2","x3", zone I = 201, J = 1, K = 1, F = POINT -1.000 0.1111 0.2222 0.

3333 -0.990 0.5555 0.6666 0.7777 (total 201 sets of data for this zone) 0.990 1.000 0.5555 0.1111 0.6666 0.2222 0.7777 0.3333 0.8888 0.4444 0.4444 0.8888

zone I = 201, J = 1, K = 1, F = POINT (another zone of 201 sets of data)

1. variables = "x1","x2","x3", i. The variable names x1, x2 etc, must be enclosed by " ". ii. These names will be used as the title of the axes of the graphs. iii. The number of the variables must be coincident with the number of the columns of the data.

2. zone I = 201, J = 1, K = 1, F = POINT i. zone: indicator instructing TECPLOT the following I sets of data will be used. Note that I will be specified by I = xxx (see ii as follows). ii. I = 201: indicating the following 201 sets (lines) of data will be used. iii. J = 1, K = 1, F = POINT: so far I am not so sure what the purposes of these three parameters real are! They should be relevant to multidimensional graphs or data created by some other softwares. TECPLOT instruction for precise definitions. iv. Read HELP or the

Since each zone is a graph for each time step, this means the number of zones must match the time steps for animation (N zones for N time steps). Note that the number of data sets specified by I = xxx can be different from zone to zone (e.g., I = 101 for one zone and I = 1001 for another zone). 3. Save the data as .dat file.

Creating 1-D animation by TECPLOT 1. File Load Data files load your data file i. select initial plot type select 2D Cartesian for 1D animation 2. Check Scatter

3. Plot zone style zone show select all zones now you can specify the appearance of your graph, e.g., Scatter Symbol Shape select your favorite shape for your data, etc. 4. Plot Assign XY assign your data combination for X and Y axes (here you will see the variable names x1, x2, etc, we specified while preparing the data file.) 5. Plot Axis Specify the appearance of the axes of the graph. i. Tip: check the option Independent in Dependency, by which the plot range of the axis will not be affected by the other. ii. Tip: before specifying the axis, you may go to Plot zone style zone show select all zones activate, by which will put all zones in one graph. What comes out looks very messy, but just let it be now! Since all zones are put in one graph, it is the very good moment to specify the plot ranges for the axes. After the axes ranges have been specified, deactivate all zones then only the first zone will be left. You may activate and deactivate the zone(s) as you wish, of course. Tip: Line check Show Grid Border, then the graph will be enclosed in a rectangular box, as shown in the academic journals. 6. Tools animate zones animate enjoy it ! i. Tip: the animation can be shown on screen or be created as an AVI or RM file. As an AVI file, you may specify the speed, which means how many frames (i.e., zones) will be shown per second. Suppose you have 1000 zones and you need a 20-second AVI file, you should specify the speed as 50 frames/sec, i.e., Number of zones = temporal length of AVI in seconds times speed (frames/sec)

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