Paraview create points array and set it as source array - paraview

Creating an array with p_points = vtk.vtkPoints
And then add data to it p_points.InsertNextPoint(value).
There is like 50000 points.
I want to put that point array in a source.
I tried with a programmable one with :
servermanager fetch getPoints that give me the Point Array in it (p_array)
Then with a loop p_array.InsertNextPoint(p_points.GetPoint(index_point))
But with no luck. The points array in the source remain empty.
Thanks

Use a Programmable Source with a script like:
import vtk
pts = vtk.vtkPoints()
for i in xrange(10):
pts.InsertNextPoint(i, i, i)
output.SetPoints(pts)
The output object is pre-defined in the Python environment executed by the Programmable Source and is the output object of the source.

That's working fine but it's quite slow when you have 50000 points (something like 400-500 seconds)
When I am using servermanager.Fetch(ProgrammableSource).GetPoints().InsertNextPoints(x,y,z),
it's updating the array.
I can see it doing a Render(). And a time.sleep().
But at the end of the paraview script execution, the content seems to be blanked.
Am I accessing a temporary set pointer and then it's unset ?
Resolved :
I found a way using a PolylineSource instead of ProgrammableSource.
Thanks for your help Cory

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How to get triggers from .nxe files with FieldTrip Toolbox

I'm trying to analyse TMS-EEG data from Nexstim with FieldTrip Toolbox. I want to make a trial matrix from my raw .nxe data. But how I know which triggers to assign for cfg.trialdef.eventvalue, when cfg is the output variable. I'm trying to mimic the same kind of code as you can find from the tutorial: http://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org/tutorial/tms-eeg
I came up with a solution to the problem. With a command event = ft_read_event('filename.nxe') I got a struct with fields: type, value, sample, duration and offset and this is all I need.

Matlab save sequence of mat files from convertTDMS stored in cell array to sequence of mat files

I have data stored in the .tdms format, gathering the data of many sensors, measured every second, every day. A new tdms file is created every day, and stored in a folder per month. Using the convertTDMS function, I have converted these tdms files to mat files.
As there are some errors in some of the measurements(e.g. negative values which can not physically occur), I have performed some corrections by loading one mat file at a time, do the calculations and then save the data into the original .mat file.
However, when I try to do what I described above in a loop (so: load .mat in folder, do calculations on one mat file (or channel therein), save mat file, repeat until all files in the folder have been done), I end up running into trouble with the limitations of the save function: so far I save all variables (or am unable to save) in the workspace when using the code below.
for k = 1:nFiles
w{k,1} = load(wMAT{k,1});
len = length(w{k,1}.(x).(y).(z));
pos = find(w{k,1}.(x).(y).(z)(1,len).(y)<0); %Wind speed must be >0 m/s
for n = 1:length(pos)
w{k,1}.(x).(y).(z)(1,len).(y)(pos(n)) = mean([w{k,1}.(x).(y).(z)(1,len).(y)(pos(n)+1),...
w{k,1}.(x).(y).(z)(1,len).(y)(pos(n)-1)],2);
end
save( name{k,1});
%save(wMAT{k,1},w{k,1}.(x),w{k,1}.ConvertVer,w{k,1}.ChanNames);
end
A bit of background information: the file names are stored in a cell array wMAT of length nFiles in the folder. Each cell in the cell array wMAT stores the fullfile path to the mat files.
The data of the files is loaded and saved into the cell array w, also of length nFiles.
Each cell in "w" has all the data stored from the tdms to mat conversion, in the format described in the convertTDMS description.
This means: to get at the actual data, I need to go from the
cell in the cell array w{k,1} (my addition)
to the struct array "ConvertedData" (Structure of all of the data objects - part of convertTDMS)
to the struct array below called "Data" (convertTDMS)
to the struct array below called "MeasuredData" (convertTDMS) -> at this level, I can access the channels which store the data.
to finally access/manipulate the values stored, I have to select a channel, e.g. (1,len), and then go via the struct array to the actual values (="Data"). (convertTDMS)
In Matlab format, this looks like "w{1, 1}.ConvertedData.Data.MeasuredData(1, len).Data(1:end)" or "w{1, 1}.ConvertedData.Data.MeasuredData(1, len).Data".
To make typing easier, I took
x = 'ConvertedData';
y = 'Data';
z = 'MeasuredData';
allowing me to write instead:
w{k,1}.(x).(y).(z)(1,len).(y)
using the dot notation.
My goal/question: I want to load the values stored in a .mat file from the original .tdms files in a loop to a cell array (or if I can do better than a cell array: please tell me), do the necessary calculations, and then save each 'corrected' .mat file using the original name.
So far, I have gotten a multitude of errors from trying a variety of solutions, going from "getfieldnames", trying to pass the name of the (dynamically changing) variable(s), etc.
Similar questions which have helped me get in the right direction include Saving matlab files with a name having a variable input, Dynamically Assign Variables in Matlab and http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/4042-load-files-containing-part-of-a-string-in-the-file-name-and-the-load-that-file , yet the result is that I am still no closer than doing manual labour in this case.
Any help would be appreciated.
If I understand your ultimate goal correctly, I think you're pretty much there. I think you're trying to process your .mat files and that the loading of all of the files into a cell array is not a requirement, but just part of your solution? Assuming this is the case, you could just load the data from one file, process it, save it and then repeat. This way you only ever have one file loaded at a time and shouldn't hit any limits.
Edit
You could certainly make a function out of your code and then call that in a loop, passing in the file name to modify. Personally I'd probably do that as I think it's neater solution. If you don't want to do that though, you could just replace w{k,1} with w then each time you load a file w would be overwritten. If you wanted to explicitly clear variables you can use the clear command with a space separated list of variables e.g. clear w len pos, but I don't think that this is necessary.

Reading structured variable from MAT file

I am performing an analysis which involves simulation of over 1000 cases. I extracting lots of data for each case as well (about 70MB). Currently I am saving the results for each case as:
Vessel.TotalForce
Vessel.WindForce
Vessel.CurrentForce
Vessel.WaveForce
Vessel.ConnectionForce
...
Line1.EffectiveTension
Line1.X
Line1.Y
Line2.EfectiveTension
Line2.X
Line2.Y
...
save('CaseNo1.mat')
Now, I need to perform my analysis for CaseNo1.mat to CaseNo1000. Initially I planned to create a Database.mat file by loading all cases in it and then accessing any variable using h5read. This way Matlab doesn't need to load all the data at a time. However, I am concerned now that my database file will be too big.
Is there any way I can read the structured variables from individual case files for example CaseNo1.mat without loading the CaseNo1.mat file in memory.
Matlab examples shows loading just the variables directly from MAT file without loading the whole MAT file. But I am not sure how to read structures data the same way.
x=load('CaseNo1.mat','Line1.X')
says Line1.X not found. But it's there. The command is not correct to access the data. Also tried using h5read, but it says CaseNo1.mat is not an HDF5 file.
Can anyone help with this.
Apart from this, I would also appreciate if there is any suggestion about performing such data intensive analysis.
I was wrong! I'm leaving my old answer for context, though I've edited it to reference this one. I thought I had used matfile() in that way before, but I hadn't. I just did a thorough search and ran a few test cases. You've actually run into a limitation of the way Matlab handles and references structures stored in .mat files. There is, however, a solution. It does involve some refactoring of your original code, but it shouldn't be too egregious.
Vessel_TotalForce
Vessel_WindForce
Vessel_CurrentForce
Vessel_WaveForce
Vessel_ConnectionForce
...
Line1_EffectiveTension
Line1_X
Line1_Y
Line2_EfectiveTension
Line2_X
Line2_Y
...
save('CaseNo1.mat')
Then to access, just use matfile (or load) as you were before. Like so:
Vessel_WaveForce = load('CaseNo1.mat'', 'Vessel_WaveForce')
It's important to note that this restriction doesn't appear to be caused by anything you've chosen to do in your program, but rather is imposed by the way Matlab interacts with it's native storage files when they contain structures.
EDIT: This answer works, but doesn't actually solve the problem posed in OP's question. I thought I had used matfile to generate a handle that I could access, but I was wrong. See my other answer for details.
You could use matfile, like so:
myMatFileHandle = matfile('caseNo1.mat');
thisVessel = myMatFileHandle.vessel;
Also, from the little bit I can see, you seem to be on the right track for high-volume analysis. Just remember to use sparse when applicable, and generally avoid conditionals inside of loops if possible.
Good luck!
The objective of storing data in structured format is:
To be organized
Easy scripting post processor where looping through data under one data set it required.
To store structured dataset containing integer, floating and string variables in MAT file and to be able to read just the required variable using h5read command was sought. Matlab load command is not able to read variable beyond first level from stored data in a MAT file. The h5write couldn't write string variables. Hence needed a work around to solve this problem.
To do this I have used following method:
filename = 'myMatFile';
Vessel.TotalForce = %store some data
Vessel.WindForce = %store some data
Vessel.CurrentForce = %store some data
Vessel.WaveForce = %store some data
Vessel.ConnectionForce = %store some data
...
Lin1.LineType = 'Wire'
Line1.ArcLength_0.EffectiveTension = %store some data
Line1.ArcLength_50.EffectiveTension= %store some data
Line1.ArcLength_100.EffectiveTension= %store some data
Lin2.LineType = 'Chain'
Line2.ArcLength_0.EffectiveTension= %store some data
Line2.ArcLength_50.EffectiveTension= %store some data
Line2.ArcLength_100.EffectiveTension= %store some data
save([filename '_temp.mat']);
PointToMat=matfile([filename '.mat'],'Writable',true);
PointToMat.(char(filename)) = load([filename '_temp.mat']);
delete([filename '_temp.mat']);
Now to read from the MAT file created, we can use h5read as usual. To extract the EffectiveTension for Line1, ArcLength_0:
EffectiveTension = h5read([filename '.mat'],['/' filename '/Line1/ArcLength_0/EffectiveTension']);
For string variables, h5read returns decimal values corresponding to each character. To obtain the actual string I used:
name = char(h5read([filename '.mat'],['/' filename '/Line1/LineType']));
Tried this method on my data set which is about 200MB and I could process them pretty fast. Hope this would help someone someday.
Short answer:
Having saved the data into a MAT file with the '-v7.3' option, use something like h5read(filename, '/Line2/X') to read just one structure field. You can even read an array partially, for example:
s.a = 1:100;
save('test.mat', '-v7.3', 's');
clear
h5read('test.mat', '/s/a', [1 10], [1 5], [1 3])
returns each third element of the 1:100 array, starting with the 10th element and returning 5 values:
10 13 16 19 22
Long answer:
See answer by #Amitava for the more elaborate code and topic coverage.

Debugging a for loop in matlab

I've been looking throught the documentation, but can't seem to find the bit I want.
I have a for loop and I would like to be able to view every value in the for loop.
for example here is a part of my code:
for d = 1 : nb
%for loop performs blade by blade averaging and produces a column vector
for cc = navg : length(atbmat);
atb2 = (sum(atbmat((cc-(navg-1):cc),d)))/navg;
atbvec2(:,cc) = atb2;
end
%assigns column vector 'atbvec2' to the correct column of the matrix 'atbmat2'
atbmat2(d,1:length(atbvec2)) = atbvec2;
end
I would like to view every value of atb2. I'm a python user(new to MATLAB) and would normally use a simple print statement to find this.
I'm sure there is a way to do it, but I can't quite find how.
Thankyou in advance.
you can use disp in Matlab to print to the screen but you might want to use sprintf first to format it nicely. However for debugging you're better off using a break point and then inspect the variable in the workspace browser graphically. To me, this is one of Matlab's best features.
Have a look at the "Examine Values" section of this article
The simplest way to view it everywhere is to change this line:
atb2 = (sum(atbmat((cc-(navg-1):cc),d)))/navg;
Into this, without semicolon:
atb2 = (sum(atbmat((cc-(navg-1):cc),d)))/navg
That being said, given the nature of your calculation, you could get the information you need as well by simply storing every value of abt2 and observing them afterwards. This may be done in atbmat2 already?
If you want to look at each value at the time it happens, consider setting a breakpoint or conditional breakpoint after the line where abt2 is assigned.

dataFrame keying using pandas groupby method

I new to pandas and trying to learn how to work with it. Im having a problem when trying to use an example I saw in one of wes videos and notebooks on my data. I have a csv file that looks like this:
filePath,vp,score
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_9709495726,-2
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_9708568031,-80
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_9702445777,-2
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_7023544759,-35
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_9702229339,-77
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_9513243289,25
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_2102513187,18
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_6625625104,-56
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_6073165338,-40
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_5105831247,-30
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_9513082770,-55
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_5753907026,-79
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_7403410322,11
E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav,Cust_4062144116,-70
I loading it to a data frame and the group it by "filePath" and "vp", the code is:
res = df.groupby(['filePath','vp']).size()
res.index
and the output is:
[E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav Cust_2102513187,
Cust_4062144116, Cust_5105831247,
Cust_5753907026, Cust_6073165338,
Cust_6625625104, Cust_7023544759,
Cust_7403410322, Cust_9513082770,
Cust_9513243289, Cust_9702229339,
Cust_9702445777, Cust_9708568031,
Cust_9709495726]
Now Im trying to approach the index like a dict, as i saw in examples, but when im doing
res['Cust_4062144116']
I get an error:
KeyError: 'Cust_4062144116'
I do succeed to get a result when im putting the filepath, but as i understand and saw in previouse examples i should be able to use the vp keys as well, isnt is so?
Sorry if its a trivial one, i just cant understand why it is working in one example but not in the other.
Rutger you are not correct. It is possible to "partial" index a multiIndex series. I simply did it the wrong way.
The index first level is the file name (e.g. E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav above) and the second level is vp. Meaning, for each file name i have multiple vps.
Now, this is correct:
res['E:\Audio\7168965711_5601_4.wav]
and will return:
Cust_2102513187 2
Cust_4062144116 8
....
but trying to index by the inner index (the Cust_ indexes) will fail.
You groupby two columns and therefore get a MultiIndex in return. This means you also have to slice using those to columns, not with a single index value.
Your .size() on the groupby object converts it into a Series. If you force it in a DataFrame you can use the .xs method to slice a single level:
res = pd.DataFrame(df.groupby(['filePath','vp']).size())
res.xs('Cust_4062144116', level=1)
That works. If you want to keep it as a series, boolean indexing can help, something like:
res[res.index.get_level_values(1) == 'Cust_4062144116']
The last option is a bit less readable, but sometimes also more flexibile, you could test for multiple values at once for example:
res[res.index.get_level_values(1).isin(['Cust_4062144116', 'Cust_6073165338'])]