[FLASH-USERS] understanding HDF5 data structures

[Slavin, Jonathan]

Hi all,

I'm new to using flash and just trying to understand the output in HDF5.
 For example, when I read in the data from a plot file via h5py:
>>> f = h5py.File('sedov_forced_hdf5_plt_cnt_0000')
I get
>>> dens = f['dens']
>>> dens.shape
(517, 1, 8, 8)
I assume that somehow the various python or IDL output routines that create
plots are using other information about grid refinement to create arrays
that can be plotted directly (e.g. to create slices).  I'd like to know how
that is done under the hood.  Any help would be appreciated.

Jon

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