[Paraview] PV 4.1 surface LIC plugin documentation

2013-12-17 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi All, I've added a page to the wiki documenting the new features developed for the surface LIC plugin in PV 4.1. It's linked to from the main Wiki page under the other category. http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Line_Integral_Convolution in summary: * added noise texture generator

Re: [Paraview] CUDA dependency issue when building ParaView 4.1.0-RC2 on Mac

2014-01-02 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Benjamin, This is of interest to me as I haven't been involved in the recent plugin changes and need to look through them more closely. You reported an informational message that is not an error. Could you report the actual error? btw, I also see the message on my ATI based system, but

Re: [Paraview] CUDA dependency issue when building ParaView 4.1.0-RC2 on Mac

2014-01-02 Thread Burlen Loring
'. Best regards, Patrick On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Benjamin, This is of interest to me as I haven't been involved in the recent plugin changes and need to look through them more closely

Re: [Paraview] CUDA dependency issue when building ParaView 4.1.0-RC2 on Mac

2014-01-03 Thread Burlen Loring
the release soon, so we should try to keep changes to a minimal at this point. Utkarsh On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hey Patrick and Ben, Thanks for the feedback. In this case I think it's confusing to be dumped into a separate ccmake screen. I'd say it's

Re: [Paraview] PV 4.1 surface LIC plugin documentation

2014-01-13 Thread Burlen Loring
Great, thanks for letting me know! And congratulations, Dr. Marsan :-) Burlen On 01/13/2014 10:41 AM, Aurélien Marsan wrote: Hi Burlen, Thank you for this. SurfaceLIC was incredibly useful for my PhD. thesis. Aurélien. 2013/12/17 Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com mailto:burlen.lor

Re: [Paraview] ParaView 4.1.0 server-side reader plugin

2014-01-17 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Utkarsh and Andy, static linking *really* improves performance on Hopper. One issue though is that plugins are automatically loaded, so when connecting to a statically linked server the plugin manager immediately pops up and requests that the user load all the plugins. Does the

Re: [Paraview] ParaView 4.1.0 server-side reader plugin

2014-01-17 Thread Burlen Loring
. Anything else, shouldn't. Utkarsh On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Utkarsh and Andy, static linking *really* improves performance on Hopper. One issue though is that plugins are automatically loaded, so when connecting to a statically linked server the plugin

Re: [Paraview] ParaView 4.1.0 server-side reader plugin

2014-01-27 Thread Burlen Loring
revisited or cleanup since their inception. I would like to collect such feature requests so we can take all such things into consideration when cleaning that up. Utkarsh On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Thanks for the clarification. It'd be helpful if all

Re: [Paraview] bug in v4.1

2014-01-31 Thread Burlen Loring
and if the driver update doesn't fix it for you it would be good to capture the issue in a bug report. so we have a better sense of which cards/drivers have issues with the algorithm. Burlen On 01/31/2014 05:18 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Weiguang, I suspect depth peeing (which is for the

Re: [Paraview] Surface LIC Problem

2014-02-08 Thread Burlen Loring
I'm not 100% sure I understand the situation. A picture or sample dataset would help. Is it that some of the surfaces don't have the velocity field defined on them? Burlen On 02/08/2014 04:42 AM, Magician wrote: Hi all, I'm trying the Surface LIC Plugin. My models are formatted as VTK

Re: [Paraview] Multi-core custom applications

2014-02-10 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Utkarsh, I'm wondering what you think about the idea that multicore use the same mechanism as the normal connect to server? Is there a strong reason for it to be different? I'm think that when multicore featured is enabled a dialog defined by an internal pvsc with some basic options such

Re: [Paraview] Multi-core custom applications

2014-02-10 Thread Burlen Loring
connecting to a remote-server in the guise of the multicore would be any better. Utkarsh On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Utkarsh, I'm wondering what you think about the idea that multicore use the same mechanism as the normal connect to server

Re: [Paraview] Multi-core custom applications

2014-02-10 Thread Burlen Loring
, I am still not convinced it makes sense to hide it under the multi-core umbrella. BTW, you can change the number of cores to use from the settings dialog. Utkarsh On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: for me every run is different, sometimes I want to use 2 cores

Re: [Paraview] Multi-core custom applications

2014-02-10 Thread Burlen Loring
so then the multicore config in the setting menu has an entry for a pvsc path? If so, that sounds wonderful! On 02/10/2014 01:17 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote: right, but just as the current multicore makes it easy

Re: [Paraview] Multi-core custom applications

2014-02-10 Thread Burlen Loring
, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: so then the multicore config in the setting menu has an entry for a pvsc path? If so, that sounds wonderful! On 02/10/2014 01:17 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Paraview] trouble with paraview.simple.AssignLookupTable

2014-02-24 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Alan, You get the array object from the source/reader/filter's point data. for example w = Wavelet() wa = w.PointData.GetArray('RTData') See if this example doesn't help: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python/Lookup_tables Burlen On 2/24/2014 1:29 PM, Scott, W Alan wrote: I

Re: [Paraview] Using vtkIntegrateAttributes in an internal pipeline and multiple processes

2014-03-23 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Mark, Crashes that only occur in parallel can be hard to debug. The memory inspector makes it easy to attach gdb to any of ParaView's processes. After you've connected to the parallel pvserver, open the memory inspector, right click on the process of interest, select remote command. If

Re: [Paraview] Verbose output on Windows? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-04-01 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Rick, If you are running from cmd.exe you capture the output in a file as follows: paraview.exe out.txt 21 If you launch from within a cygwin shell, you see the output as usual. I find cygwin much nicer than cmd. Burlen On 04/01/2014 12:52 PM, Angelini, Richard C (Rick) CIV USARMY

Re: [Paraview] LIC plugin version 2 of PV 410 Windows 32 bits fails : unsupported NVIDIA card driver ?

2014-04-15 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Richard, Your video card is fairly old and it doesn't support the extensions used by the new version. The 2.0 Surface LIC in PV 4.1 is a true parallel implementation and has additional requirements compared with the original serial code. However, there are no exotic requirements, all

Re: [Paraview] Pvbatch 4.1.0 core dumps when loading LIC plugin on server and client

2014-04-16 Thread Burlen Loring
mind sharing a complete example? On 04/16/2014 07:24 AM, Joe Borġ wrote: Create a Python file with the following commands: from paraview.simple import * print 'Loading on server...' LoadPlugin('/opt/ParaView/ParaView-4.1.0-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.1/libSurfaceLIC.so', True,

Re: [Paraview] Pvbatch 4.1.0 core dumps when loading LIC plugin on server and client

2014-04-16 Thread Burlen Loring
, int, char**) [(pvbatch) ???:-1] 0x3769621b45 : __libc_start_main [(libc.so.6) ???:-1] 0x401dca : __gxx_personality_v0 [(pvbatch) ???:-1] = Aborted On 04/16/2014 11:37 AM, Burlen Loring wrote: mind sharing a complete example? On 04/16/2014

Re: [Paraview] Building Paraview with OSMesa llvmpipe

2014-05-02 Thread Burlen Loring
Is GLU required for PV? At any rate GLU is not distributed with mesa. It can be found here: http://www.mesa3d.org/download.html In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they were split off

Re: [Paraview] Need advice with parallel file format

2014-05-05 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Mohammad, This is not an answer to your question but there is a usage caveat w/ VTK XML files that I want to make sure you're aware of. When you use that format make sure you set mode to appended and encode off. This is the combination to produce binary files which are going to be faster

Re: [Paraview] Need advice with parallel file format

2014-05-05 Thread Burlen Loring
Ahh, right, I assumed you were using VTK's classes to write the data, although if you're writing them yourself, you'll still want to emulate the unencoded appended format to get the best performance. see SetModeTo* and EncodeAppendedData* funcs

Re: [Paraview] Need advice with parallel file format

2014-05-05 Thread Burlen Loring
the data in appended mode? I guess right now I'm using binary mode On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Ahh, right, I assumed you were using VTK's classes to write the data, although if you're writing them yourself, you'll

Re: [Paraview] parallel and transparency

2014-05-07 Thread Burlen Loring
Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN From: Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com Subject: [Paraview] parallel and transparency Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:24:26 -0700 Hi All, Transparency doesn't seem to be working correctly in parallel w/ multiple actors(see attached image, bad.png

Re: [Paraview] Python Script - access the raw data loaded from a dataset and creating new dataset (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-05-09 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Simon, Fetching the data to the client is generally a bad idea. Instead you could use a python programmable filter which allows you to operate on the data in place on the server side. http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Python_Programmable_Filter Burlen On 05/09/2014 10:44 AM, Su, Simon M CTR

Re: [Paraview] Accessing a specific variable in Python Programmable Filter

2014-05-16 Thread Burlen Loring
:* Burlen Loring [blor...@lbl.gov] *Sent:* Friday, May 16, 2014 4:23 PM *To:* Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US); paraview@paraview.org *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Accessing a specific variable in Python Programmable Filter = input =self.GetPolyDataInput(); output

Re: [Paraview] Accessing a specific variable in Python Programmable Filter

2014-05-16 Thread Burlen Loring
correction, Dave D. just pointed out to me that since PV 4.0 the shallow copy is no longer needed because of the VTK 6.0 pipeline improvements. On 05/16/2014 02:07 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: By the way, the example following that is buggy as well, when you apply an internal filter you first need

Re: [Paraview] ParaView programmable filter - what datatype to use to store complex number and complex number visualization

2014-05-21 Thread Burlen Loring
So you have 3 numpy arrays each with 3 complex values? In any case you'll use vtk double array for this, and you'll want to explictly handle real and imaginary parts. PV can iso surface the real and imaginary parts separately. There are a couple of ways you could do that. 1) each array of

Re: [Paraview] Naming an existing data array.

2014-05-31 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Andrew, I see a couple of things in your script. First is normals and scalars are data set attributes. so you need to access them through one of those classes, ex vtkPointData. Correct me if I'm wrong but, although in VTK 6 you generally don't need to shallow copy the input to filters I

Re: [Paraview] Naming an existing data array.

2014-05-31 Thread Burlen Loring
the normals. You get some beautiful images. Regards Andrew On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Andrew, I see a couple of things in your script. First is normals and scalars are data set attributes. so you need

[Paraview] XSEDE Visualization Showcase -- share your accomplishments and innovative ideas

2014-06-11 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi All, Forwarding a note from organizers of the annual XSEDE conference, it's a great place to showcase your work and make connections. Burlen The XSEDE steering committee would like to encourage you to share your accomplishments and innovative ideas through the submission of an abstract

Re: [Paraview] Cannot compile 4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 x64 with OpenMPI 1.8.1

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
Hey Victor, Editing the make file is a bad idea. CCFLAG is the wrong flag. I think this is much simpler than it appears. just set the compiler flags on your configure line. as in: ./configure *CFLAGS=-O2 -g -fPIC CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -fPIC* --with-sge --with-mx=/opt/open-mx --with-pic

Re: [Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
Yes, this is expected. The OpenGL calls get piped to your local system. This includes data like vertices and colors as well. X forwarding doesn't give good performance and with large data it may not even be feasible. You need to set up client server connection.

Re: [Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Yes, this is expected. The OpenGL calls get piped to your local system. This includes data like vertices and colors as well. X forwarding doesn't give good performance and with large data it may not even be feasible

Re: [Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
. What should the load on the client be in that case? j On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Yes, this is expected. The OpenGL calls get piped to your local system. This includes data like vertices and colors

Re: [Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
Ug. you're using the multicore option to start the servers! I believe that this forces remote rendering off. That would explain your issues. Could you try duisabling the multi core option and start your servers manually? On 06/19/2014 12:29 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: OK, one possibility

Re: [Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
was already using 0MB remote rendering threshold. I have tried with paraview on both linux and macosx. The server seems to load the dataset properly but no image is shown on the client. On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Ug. you're

Re: [Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
and then it idles. The status bar also shows that the vtkUnstructuredGridReader is loading the dataset and it reaches 100% without giving any errors. The problem seems to be displaying the data... On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: The server

Re: [Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

2014-06-19 Thread Burlen Loring
pvserver where the dataset should be displayed, right? well I see the window but nothing gets rendered on it... if remote rendering is disabled do I still see the window? j On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com mailto:burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote: questions

Re: [Paraview] cell to point grayed out after slice?

2014-06-30 Thread Burlen Loring
sure the output of Slice has Cell Data in it? How I can I reproduce this issue? Utkarsh On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com mailto:burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Noticing that cell to point data filter becomes unavailable after applying

Re: [Paraview] connectivity errors

2014-07-10 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Rich, Did you get it to work? You should be using the same version on both sides. If you are setting this up for multiple people it's simpler to use the official releases, and do version check in your server side scripts, print a nice error message when someone connects with an unsupported

Re: [Paraview] vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x25abb70): bad X server connection. DISPLAY=ERROR

2014-07-17 Thread Burlen Loring
Should DISPLAY be set? yes if you have GPU hardware running on your cluster. In that case the xserver needs to be running. If it's not then you need to start it before launching PV. if you don't have GPU's then you need to recompile ParaView for use with OSMesa. Here

Re: [Paraview] what if you have two qt-installations?

2014-08-04 Thread Burlen Loring
system install may be first in the linker search path. have you checked? If that's it: rm your build, and in addition to QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE, prepend export your qt install paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH before you run cmake. Each time when you run PV do the same. On 08/04/2014 12:01 PM,

Re: [Paraview] Reader ctors called multiple times?

2014-08-04 Thread Burlen Loring
I thought it was twice. The first one ParaView when creates the reader to call CanReadFile in its search for potential readers of the file. The second one when it builds the pipeline. On 08/04/2014 02:31 PM, Vanmoer, Mark W wrote: Ah, is it because the exeutive's ProcessRequest is doing all

Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

2014-08-08 Thread Burlen Loring
OpenMPI dropped support for windows some time ago. Would it not make sense to use MS MPI? https://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/ms-windows.php http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb524831(v=vs.85).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb524831%28v=vs.85%29.aspx On 08/08/2014

Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

2014-08-08 Thread Burlen Loring
isn't linking to it in the first place. Although I vaguely remember a ParaView version that was linked to a stub MPI, possibly because of that... On 08-08-2014 17:21, Burlen Loring wrote: OpenMPI dropped support for windows some time ago. Would it not make sense to use MS MPI? https

Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

2014-08-11 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Utkarsh, I think it does implement MPI2. At least my codes make heavy use of MPI 2 and it works fine. However, I'll look into it and report back. Microsoft's documentation says: You may also redistribute this MS-MPI installation package with your own applications, to facilitate

Re: [Paraview] streamlines on 2D plane from 3D data

2014-08-12 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Ryan, Try using Surface Vectors filter to remove the out of surface component from the vector field, and make sure your seeds are exactly on the surface. As far as surface lic, are you sure you selected the right vector field? If yes, please share the data and I'll see if I can duplicate

Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

2014-08-12 Thread Burlen Loring
MPI is officially supported any more. Something to think about for 4.3, not sure I want to make the plunge for 4.2 -- but we'll keep the options open :). Utkarsh On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Utkarsh, I think it does implement MPI2. At least my

Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

2014-08-13 Thread Burlen Loring
compiler? Qt distributes binaries for 2010, 2012, 2013. I suppose we can pick 2012 :). On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh, that may be, I wouldn't have noticed it since I have admin on my account. as far as the version of the standard implemented

Re: [Paraview] [ParaView] Unofficial ParaView 4.1.0 SDK for Windows 32 and 64-bit

2014-08-13 Thread Burlen Loring
I was thinking along the lines that the ParaView installer, could leverage the python official installer behind the scenes, but direct it into the ParaView specific location... On 08/13/2014 07:59 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor

Re: [Paraview] A Forward Connection Over two ssh Tunnel

2014-08-18 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Ehsan, As Utkarsh says you need to use a reverse connection. I suggest ncat http://nmap.org/ncat/ instead of portfwd because portfwd is a long dead project with no support and it's failed to compile on some systems I used. Here's a schematic of the setup [work station] [

Re: [Paraview] A Forward Connection Over two ssh Tunnel

2014-08-18 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Utkarsh, Sure I can do that. Burlen On 08/18/2014 01:36 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Burlen, Very cool. When you get the chance, mind updating the Wiki? Thanks Utkarsh On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Ehsan, As Utkarsh says you need to use

Re: [Paraview] A Forward Connection Over two ssh Tunnel

2014-08-19 Thread Burlen Loring
/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/wiki/ParaView Best, Axel On 18.08.2014 22:43, Burlen Loring wrote: Hi Utkarsh, Sure I can do that. Burlen On 08/18/2014 01:36 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Burlen, Very cool. When you get the chance, mind updating the Wiki? Thanks Utkarsh On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:37 PM

Re: [Paraview] Strange opacity behavior

2014-08-25 Thread Burlen Loring
I have the same issue, I reported back in may http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2014-May/031007.html On 08/25/2014 03:57 PM, Yi Chen wrote: Hi Ken, Thanks a lot for your fascinating answer. In my application of visualizing multi-floor buildings a higher peel number is necessary.

Re: [Paraview] Quadrature Points filters

2014-08-26 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Ken, Those are for visualizing data at locations used internally by FE solvers. The menu category was added a while back (3.98?) when I fixed a couple of bugs reported here on the user list. The filters themselves have been around for a while.

Re: [Paraview] proper formatting of 2D data

2014-09-19 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Robert, Good one! The slice rep uses GPU textures and this behavior looks a bug in the logic that sets up the texture. You should file a bug report. There's an easy workaround. Convert to a positive spacing and adjust the origin accordinigly. The data will the occupy the same region.

Re: [Paraview] Paraview-Wiki: OSMesa

2014-09-26 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Gerrit, The code on the Wiki has been tested with PV 4.0.0, but it sounds like it no longer works. The issue is that if you do not put *something in the GL library then CMake will fill it in with the system libGL. That is the wrong thing to do when using OSMesa and can lead to run time

Re: [Paraview] new Source plugin: no show!

2014-10-04 Thread Burlen Loring
I assume in your request data you are generating a vtkPolyData dataset. At the end of request data call dataset-Print(cerr); . That's the one of the best debug method when you don't see what you think you should in PV while developing a new filter/source/reader what ever. The information tab

Re: [Paraview] new Source plugin: no show!

2014-10-05 Thread Burlen Loring
buying is that it seems outdated (because it refers to version 3). The texture coordinates I had found on Google indeed. What I needed was how to apply it in Paraview/VTK. I will look into that again Maybe it becomes clear now. Thanks Bertwim On 10/05/2014 05:05 AM, Burlen Loring wrote: I assume

Re: [Paraview] Disappearing volume rendering?

2014-10-13 Thread Burlen Loring
do you have any scalars? those are not optional for volume rendering. Additionally you may need to adjust the transfer function, On 10/13/2014 10:22 AM, B.W.H. van Beest wrote: No, it doesn't work. The filter creates tets, which are visible in the wireframe representation, but when I select

Re: [Paraview] BOX - volume?

2014-10-14 Thread Burlen Loring
. This is complete unknown terrain for me. Regards, Bertwim On 10/14/2014 09:58 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: progress! it sounds like volume rendering is working on the wavelet dataset. You do need the scalars for volume rendering, so make sure you have those when you

Re: [Paraview] BOX - volume?

2014-10-16 Thread Burlen Loring
/2014 09:58 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: progress! it sounds like volume rendering is working on the wavelet dataset. You do need the scalars for volume rendering, so make sure you have those when you try. You need to select the scalars in the drop down also, I usually do

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread Burlen Loring
don't forget to add vertex type cells, or you will not be able to see the points, and that it's going to be more complicated if you're starting from data types that have implicit points. On 10/22/2014 07:52 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote: Output-SetPoints(input-GetPoints()); Or

Re: [Paraview] Filter to keep points, dropping topology

2014-10-22 Thread Burlen Loring
the points first, and do the snapping as a next step. So that is not a good idea? I need to do it all in one go? Regards, Bertwim On 10/22/2014 04:58 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: don't forget to add vertex type cells, or you will not be able to see the points, and that it's going to be more

Re: [Paraview] Segmentation Fault when using the vtkPVDReader

2014-10-24 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Bogdan, You are writing a stand alone C++ app right? Are you setting up to run the composite data pipeline as in the following example? 100 vtkCompositeDataPipeline* cexec=vtkCompositeDataPipeline::New(); 101 vtkAlgorithm::SetDefaultExecutivePrototype(cexec); 102 cexec-Delete();

Re: [Paraview] Paravew on XC30

2014-10-27 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Christopher, I can't help you with the superbuild, but I can show you how to build PV on the XC30. here's the script https://github.com/burlen/pvserver-configs/blob/master/servers/edison/builds/config-pv-mesa.sh I used to build ParaView 4.2 with PrgEnv-gnu/5.2.25 on our XC30 You'll see a

Re: [Paraview] HPC paraview

2014-10-27 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Christopher, Are you by any chance logged in with ssh X11 forwarding (ssh -X ...)? It seems the error you report comes up often in that context. X forwarding would not be the right way to run PV on your cluster. Depending on how your cluster is setup you may need to start up the xserver

Re: [Paraview] Segmentation Fault when using the vtkPVDReader

2014-10-27 Thread Burlen Loring
will try adding this. Currently I need to read and traverse the dataset without adding any filters or processing the data. I it still needed to create a pipeline in this case? Kind regards, Bogdan On 10/24/2014 06:14 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: Hi Bogdan, You are writing a stand alone C++ app right

Re: [Paraview] Paravew on XC30

2014-10-27 Thread Burlen Loring
AM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Christopher, I can't help you with the superbuild, but I can show you how to build PV on the XC30. here's the script https://github.com/burlen/pvserver-configs/blob/master/servers/edison/bui lds/config-pv-mesa.sh I used to build ParaView 4.2

Re: [Paraview] HPC paraview

2014-10-28 Thread Burlen Loring
awesome! Chris B On 27/10/2014, at 11:10 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: Hi Christopher, Are you by any chance logged in with ssh X11 forwarding (ssh -X ...)? It seems the error you report comes up often in that context. X forwarding would not be the right way to run PV on your cluster. Depending on how

Re: [Paraview] HPC paraview

2014-10-30 Thread Burlen Loring
Dick Perry Avenue, Technology Park Kensington, Western Australia. 6151 On 27/10/2014, at 11:10 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: Hi Christopher, Are you by any chance logged in with ssh X11 forwarding (ssh -X ...)? It seems the error you report comes up often in that context. X forwarding would

Re: [Paraview] PV 4.2.0 Color legend disappearing

2014-10-30 Thread Burlen Loring
yep I've seen that and a hosty of other flakeyness that I haven't had time to make bug reports about. using 4.1 for now. On 10/29/2014 04:26 PM, Scott, W Alan wrote: In ParaView 4.2.0, I have found a few cases where the color legend disappears, and I can’t get it back. Has anyone else seen

Re: [Paraview] volume color transfer table.

2014-11-07 Thread Burlen Loring
that is indeed annoying, and would be very nice to be able to save the opacity table. A work around is use a state file. The opacity tables will be saved/restored. note: 4.2 has a bug in state file loading re: time. depending on your scenario you may need to use 4.1. On 11/07/2014 08:33 AM,

Re: [Paraview] paraview web issue

2014-11-24 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Sebastien, this is for a public deployment but I am testing in the browser while it locally logged into the system. This server is running ubuntu 11.04, apache 2.2.22. I hope that this isn't a roadblock.I can't easily upgrade. your instructions for 14.04 went off OK but in 2 spots I had

Re: [Paraview] paraview web issue

2014-11-25 Thread Burlen Loring
/Nightly/www/js-doc/index.html#!/guide/apache_front_end http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/js-doc/index.html#%21/guide/apache_front_end Seb On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Sebastien, this is for a public

Re: [Paraview] paraview web issue

2014-11-26 Thread Burlen Loring
else. Seb On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Burlen Loring blor...@lbl.gov mailto:blor...@lbl.gov wrote: Hi Sebastien, OK, I finally upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 and apache 2.4! however, I still have some issue. again I see the render window pop up

Re: [Paraview] Trace recorder missing color preset changes

2014-12-23 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Alan, Did you want to load a preset color lut by name from python? If so, this example shows how: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python/Lookup_tables That commit was accepted as an interim measure, was never publicized, and Utkarsh may have a better way by now. Burlen On

[Paraview] reducing startup time on cray

2015-02-06 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi All, I want to share a performance issue related to PV start up time, which in general on our cray's is significant usability issue, especially on Hopper. Earlier this week NERSC did some upgrades on one of our Crays which introduced some issues that prevent ParaView from starting. In

Re: [Paraview] reducing startup time on cray

2015-02-06 Thread Burlen Loring
Utkarsh, Berk, It makes sense to me too. Good, I will file a bug report so this doesn't get lost. Having said that, wouldn't it be better to go to the next step and use a frozen Python? Anything to improve the scalability of python would be huge and worth looking into. NERSC maintains

[Paraview] building cosmo tools

2015-01-21 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi All, I need to build CosmoTools extensions in ParaView. There are some dependencies that I'm having a hard time locating. For example GenericIO. Web search turns up nill, and the URL listed in the super build(git://kwsource.kitwarein.com/genericio/genericio.git) seems to be either private

Re: [Paraview] [Paraview-developers] min and max range mapping data in color map editor

2015-02-18 Thread Burlen Loring
also, usually ParaView colors by a scalar value and from your question it seems you are looking at position arrays (x,y,z). Do you have any scalar arrays defined? As Ken said, would help to know more about your data. On 02/18/2015 07:40 AM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote: This question is probably

Re: [Paraview] Writer plugin?

2015-01-28 Thread Burlen Loring
The WriterProxy may have a special file_name_method attribute that needs to be set. I'm not sure if that's required, optional, or long since obsolete since I haven't used our plugin in quite a while. 13 WriterProxy name=vtkSQBOVWriter 14 class=vtkSQBOVWriter 15

Re: [Paraview] Python paraview.simple: Zoom To Data?

2015-01-11 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Liam, On 1/9/2015 10:52 AM, Liam wrote: Just one more question. How do you define: far = config.camFac your question is a follow up to the script about automatically positioning the camera when viewing 2d axis aligned image data from thread

Re: [Paraview] Help with memory crash?

2015-01-09 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Nikolaos, One thing that I would suggest is to restructure your script so that you do not create new objects inside your loop. You can usually construct your rendering pipeline first then loop over the files(times, arrays, etc) modifying the existing pipeline objects and then calling

Re: [Paraview] paraview cmake can't find proper qt

2015-01-09 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Jeff, Here are the vars that I set: prepend-path PATH /work/apps/qt-4.8.2/bin prepend-path MANPATH :/work/apps/qt-4.8.2/man prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH /work/apps/qt-4.8.2/lib prepend-path LD_RUN_PATH /work/apps/qt-4.8.2/lib after sourcing this, typing which

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Trace recorder and presets (color table)

2015-03-18 Thread Burlen Loring
? Thanks *From:*Burlen Loring [mailto:blor...@lbl.gov] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:17 PM *To:* Scott, W Alan; paraview@paraview.org *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Trace recorder and presets (color table) Hi Alan, The verbosity of the trace can be confusing, 90% of it is unnecessary

Re: [Paraview] Trace recorder and presets (color table)

2015-03-16 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Alan, You can use the AssignLookupTable function to reference builtin lookup tables by name. For example see code between # marks below. There are a few other conveniences for working with the builtin tables as well, see this recipe

Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Trace recorder and presets (color table)

2015-03-17 Thread Burlen Loring
] renderView1.CameraParallelScale = 17.320508075688775 uncomment the following to render all views # RenderAllViews() # alternatively, if you want to write images, you can use SaveScreenshot(...). *From:*Burlen Loring [mailto:blor...@lbl.gov] *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2015 4:45 PM *To:* Scott, W

Re: [Paraview] server configuration with two factor authentication?

2015-03-19 Thread Burlen Loring
that users get it by default. David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. RD Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909 tel:518-881-4909 On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com mailto:burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, This works

Re: [Paraview] server configuration with two factor authentication?

2015-03-19 Thread Burlen Loring
...@kitware.com] *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:28 PM *To:* Burlen Loring *Cc:* Vanmoer, Mark W; paraview@paraview.org *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] server configuration with two factor authentication? I liked this bit too as the windows version 'xterm -e ssh '. Command exec=cmd.exe delay=10 Arguments

Re: [Paraview] server configuration with two factor authentication?

2015-03-20 Thread Burlen Loring
beside netcat, but it's easy to build, install, and use, and it's fast. On 03/20/2015 02:26 PM, Vanmoer, Mark W wrote: Hi Burlen, Are you using ncat to setup those connections because of a policy (like no outside network connections allowed) or for a technical reason? Mark *From:*Burlen Loring

Re: [Paraview] Hardware suggestions for volume rendering

2015-03-24 Thread Burlen Loring
I have the same issue with unstructured grids(not using the new opengl work yet). A while back I wanted to volume render a large image dataset after clipping it. The clip made it unstructured. This was on a few hundered nodes on edison, I couldn't get the unstructured volume rendering to work,

Re: [Paraview] wiki issue

2015-02-27 Thread Burlen Loring
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Line_Integral_Convolution On 02/27/2015 02:16 PM, David E DeMarle wrote: Looking…. can you point me at a specific page Burlen? ty On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Burlen Loring burlen.lor...@gmail.com mailto:burlen.lor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All

Re: [Paraview] Minimum system requirement for PV 4.3 volume rendering?

2015-02-25 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Ruq, I'm not sure why it works in 4.2 and not 4.3. I assume someone else reading this who knows about the recent changes could comment. The error message shows some missing open gl extensions. Are you sure you have the latest driver installed? GL_ARB_multitexture is not typically an

Re: [Paraview] reducing startup time on cray

2015-02-26 Thread Burlen Loring
Thanks! I enabled this in my 4.3.1 installs. On 02/23/2015 06:12 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Burlen, I'm unfamiliar with freezing python and how it would work with pvserver, pvbatch, or pvpython. Question: how/what do we freeze in the pvserver case? Check this out:

Re: [Paraview] dlopen: cannot load anymore object with static TLS

2015-03-27 Thread Burlen Loring
I don't know the answer but you might try adding -fPIC -ftls-model=global-dynamic to CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS and CMAKE_C_FLAGS vars when build PV and your plugin. On 03/27/2015 09:36 AM, Kit Chambers wrote: Hi All, I have a ParaView plugin which in turn links against a couple of other shared

Re: [Paraview] server configuration with two factor authentication?

2015-03-19 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Mark, This works without anything special if you launch in an xterm. We did this at NICS which requires both ssh authentication and rsa secure id token. Here is an example https://github.com/burlen/pvserver-configs/blob/master/pvsc/edison-unix.pvsc Burlen On 03/19/2015 06:50 AM,

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