We can use a user defined "prefix" for file naming.  Something like
"simulation1", so that files generated are "simulation1-scene-desc.json"
and "simulation1-simulation-data.json". How does that sound?
On 1 Jun 2014 03:37, "Jason K. Moore" <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In pydy/viz/scene.py:
>
> > @@ -290,17 +201,79 @@ def generate_visualization_json(self, dynamic_variables,
> >
> >
> >          """
> > -        self.saved_json_file = save_to
> > -        self._data_dict = self.generate_visualization_dict(dynamic_variables,
> > +
> > +        constant_map = dict(zip(constant_variables, constant_values))
> > +        self.scene_json_file = "scene_desc.json"
> > +        self.simulation_json_file = "simulation_data.json"
>
> That is a good point. Ideally we could create several simulations in the
> working directory and load them via the visualization gui. Allowing the
> user to specify these is one solution. And another solution could be to
> generate random suffixes, but then you don't know what simulation is what.
> When loading simulations in the gui there should be descriptive names so
> that the user knows what simluation he/she is loading. This is a good user
> story to add.
>
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