[Paraview] paraview plugin for vtkImageGaussianSmooth

2012-03-14 Thread FISSELL
Hi, I didn't see a paraview plugin for the vtkImageGaussianSmooth.cxx filter in the paraview Filters menus or the filters.xml file. Is there some equivalent ? If not: am I right that I will need to write a little paraview plugin wrapper in order to be able to use vtkImageGaussianSmooth in a

Re: [Paraview] paraview plugin for vtkImageGaussianSmooth

2012-03-14 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Kate, ParaView doesn't include most of the imaging filters by default due to 2 reasons, 1. not commonly used by users 2. may not necessary work in parallel (esp. for filters that change extents) You are correct, you'd need to write a little plugin to use it in pvpython or the GUI. You can simply

Re: [Paraview] paraview plugin for vtkImageGaussianSmooth

2012-03-14 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Kate, It shouldn't be too hard for you to expose the vtkImageGaussianSmooth in PV. I have one caveat for you re: using vtkImageGaussianSmooth in parallel: when it runs it will trigger a complete re-execution of your entire pipeline including the reader.This happens because

Re: [Paraview] paraview plugin for vtkImageGaussianSmooth

2012-03-14 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
You are correct, you'd need to write a little plugin to use it in pvpython or the GUI. You can simply write an XML plugin. It should be fairly simple for vtkImageGaussianSmooth, it doesn't seem to have any complex properties. I just saw Burlen's response and yes, I missed the fact that