I am trying to write a basic binary VTK file to display some data using ParaView but I have some errors and I don't understand why. Here is my test code in C++:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
double myarray[72] = {
0,0,0,1,0,0,2,0,0,3,0,0,4,0,0,
5,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,2,1,0,3,1,0,
4,1,0,5,1,0,0,2,0,1,2,0,2,2,0,
3,2,0,4,2,0,5,2,0,0,3,0,1,3,0,
2,3,0,3,3,0,4,3,0,5,3,0};
int main()
{
    std::ofstream vtkstream("test01.vtk", std::ios::out | std::ios::trunc);
    bool ascii = false;
    if (vtkstream) {
        vtkstream<<"# vtk DataFile Version 2.0"<<"\n";
        vtkstream<<"Exemple"<<"\n";
        if (ascii) {
            vtkstream<<"ASCII"<<"\n";
            vtkstream.close();
            vtkstream.clear();
            vtkstream.open("test01.vtk", std::ios::out | std::ios::app);
            vtkstream<<"DATASET STRUCTURED_GRID"<<std::endl;
            vtkstream<<"DIMENSIONS 6 4 1"<<std::endl;
            vtkstream<<"POINTS 24 double"<<std::endl;
            for (unsigned int i = 0; i < 72; ++i) {
                vtkstream<<myarray[i]<<" ";
            }
        } else {
            vtkstream<<"BINARY"<<"\n";
            vtkstream.close();
            vtkstream.clear();
            vtkstream.open("test01.vtk", std::ios::out | std::ios::app | std::ios::binary);
            vtkstream<<"DATASET STRUCTURED_GRID"<<std::endl;
            vtkstream<<"DIMENSIONS 6 4 1"<<std::endl;
            vtkstream<<"POINTS 24 double"<<std::endl;
            for (unsigned int i = 0; i < 72; ++i) {
                vtkstream<<myarray[i];
            }
        }
        vtkstream.close();
    } else {
        std::cout<<"ERROR"<<std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}
The ASCII file format works perfectly but the binary version produces the following error in ParaView:
Generic Warning: In ........\src\VTK\IO\vtkDataReader.cxx, line 1363 Error reading binary data!
Where is my mistake in the VTK format?
 
     
    