Re: [Paraview] Question to Printing Postscriptfile

2008-08-18 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
There is no direct way to print from within ParaView. However, you can save a snapshot of the screen to a variety of formats including pdf. Just go to File - Save Screenshot. From there you should find it easy to print the image. -Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Paraview] Parallel Paraview

2008-08-19 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
When you say speed, I assume you are referring to rendering speed. It sounds like there might be a problem with the X servers on your server machine. Verify that you can properly create OpenGL X windows on each of the nodes of your server. See the ParaView wiki for more information.

Re: [Paraview] Can sources use filenames in property panels?

2008-08-26 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
To try to solve your problem another way, you can create multiple readers that read files with the same extension and resolve which one to use by implementing a CanReadFile method. Before assigning a file to a particular VTK reader class, ParaView will try to run a method called CanReadFile

Re: [Paraview] crash problems

2008-08-26 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I think I see the problem. I'll test a fix tonight, probably check in a fix tomorrow, and this should work in ParaView 3.4. -Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gang Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:40 AM To: paraview Subject:

Re: [Paraview] 64 bit

2008-08-28 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
of the first invocation of CMake to ensure that the TRY_RUNs provide the right information. -Ken From: Biao She [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:24 PM To: Moreland, Kenneth Subject: Re: [Paraview] 64 bit Thanks for your advice. I really appreciate

Re: [Paraview] casting vtkPointData* to double*

2008-09-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Note that ParaView does not really use the active scalars, so there is a good chance that you will be unpleasantly surprised when you don't get the array you expect. ParaView uses a newer convention of vtkAlgorithm to specify input arrays: the vtkAlgorithm::SelectInputScalars() method. The

Re: [Paraview] Read one exodus file among many

2008-09-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Try scrolling down to the bottom of the object inspector panel and modify the filename pattern properties. I usually find it easiest to just set the start and end indices. -Ken On 9/5/08 12:49 PM, Scott, W Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have an 8 exodus file dataset, how do I only read

Re: [Paraview] custom filter?

2008-09-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
It is part of the ParaView test data. You can get it from the ParaView download web page. -Ken On 9/5/08 2:24 PM, Dominik Szczerba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find the file can.ex2 to try? I dont see it on the page. -- Dominik On Friday 05 September 2008 08:41:14 pm Moreland

Re: [Paraview] pvclient on Mac OS

2008-09-08 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I suggest consulting the ParaView wiki for more information on how to set up ParaView client/server connections, starting with this page: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Starting_the_server -Ken On 9/8/08 7:55 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It opens a socket connection to the

Re: [Paraview] Calculator speed

2008-09-09 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Tobias, I would agree that the parsing of calculator expressions is probably slowing down the calculations. I also agree that a custom filter would be the easiest way to fix the problem (and would probably simplify things for users). -Ken On 9/9/08 6:58 AM, Tobias Brandvik [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Paraview] Internalisation of, 2D vs 3D

2008-09-09 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
: in this last case the probe is not aligned with the X*Y plane. thanks anyway Philippe DAVID Sciences Computers Consultants Direct:(33)-4-77-49-75-81 Std:(33)-4-77-49-75-80 Moreland, Kenneth said the following on 09/09/2008 15:42: does somebody have been heard about internationalisation

Re: [Paraview] Adding Keyframes with no recognition of zooming

2008-09-11 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
This looks like a bug. The camera keyframes are not recording the zoom level of a parallel projection. I submitted a bug report: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=7657 You can work around that problem by turning of parallel projection. -Ken On 9/11/08 11:57 AM, Patrick Shane Calhoun

[Paraview] 3D view update issue

2008-09-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Recently I have been noticing an update issue with the 3D views. For example, create a sphere source and hit apply. Nothing is shown in the 3D view until you click in it. Has anyone else been seeing this? -Ken Kenneth Moreland *** Sandia National Laboratories ***

Re: [Paraview] 3D view update issue

2008-09-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I have been experiencing it on my Mac. I also saw it from a Linux machine when hosting back to my Mac desktop. -Ken On 9/15/08 10:11 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this on Mac? Berk and Dave D. have been seeing this on their Macs. Utkarsh Moreland, Kenneth wrote: Recently

Re: [Paraview] filter

2008-09-16 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
It might help if you ran your code in a debugger and found out exactly where the error occurred. I think the for loops are wrong. The conditions should be , not =. You might be mixing up dimension lengths and extent values. -Ken On 9/16/08 11:08 AM, Natalie Happenhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Paraview] Filter with Personalized Properties tab

2008-09-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
can I handle events generated by the GUI, in order to change properties of the model displayed in the screen ? I mean, how can I really connect my filter with the ObjectPanel ? Thanks again ! Rafael March. --- On Thu, 9/18/08, Moreland, Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Moreland, Kenneth

Re: [Paraview] Paraview on SGI Altix 4000

2008-09-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
It sounds like it could be a rendering problem. Perhaps the offscreen rendering is misbehaving. What happens when you run without the --use-offscreen-rendering flag? -Ken On 9/22/08 11:28 AM, Biao She [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. Has anyone ever installed paraview on SGI Altix 4000?

Re: [Paraview] Paraview on SGI Altix 4000

2008-09-23 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
at 11:51 AM, Moreland, Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you are having a framebuffer readback issue. Can you check to see if your OpenGL drivers are up to date? -Ken On 9/22/08 11:39 AM, Biao She [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you reply, Ken. In stead of black square

Re: [Paraview] Unstructured Grids

2008-09-24 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
That is a pretty open ended question. Unstructured grids are defined by an array of point coordinates and a separate array of cell topologies. In your case, the list of points will simply correspond to each particle, and each cell will be a 0D cell (a vertex) that points to a single point.

Re: [Paraview] unstructured trasient format

2008-09-25 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Could you clarify your question? Are you asking how to store in a file an unstructured grid that changes over time? -Ken On 9/25/08 11:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How is the format for paraview in trasient for unstructured grid?? Thanks Pablo

Re: [Paraview] Off topic : Multiple Graphics cards (display:0 display:1) on windows

2008-09-29 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
As you have guessed, we have run pvserver on nodes with quad cores and dual GPUs under Linux and got it working fine. I don't think many people use windows boxes for pvserver nodes (and I would personally discourage it in general), so you might be on your own here. Is it possible to have one

Re: [Paraview] pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering

2008-09-30 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Have you taken a look at this ParaView Wiki page? http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server -Ken On 9/30/08 4:44 AM, Robert Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to visualize simple 3d voxel data: creating iso surfaces, slices etc... First interactive and later

Re: [Paraview] Interaction between customized ObjectPanel and Model Display

2008-09-30 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I believe you can access the VTK object(s) indirectly with the vtkSMProxy object returned from pqLoadedFormObjectPanel::proxy(). In general, your object panels will not have direct access to the VTK objects they control (that is, you cannot get pointers to the VTK objects) because they are

Re: [Paraview] Rendering mixed translucent and opaque surfaces in parallel

2008-10-02 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
If I understand your email correctly, you are defining a lookup table in a VTK Legacy file and expecting to use that table is ParaView. To be honest, that mode of operation is not well supported by ParaView and I'm a little surprised that it works at all. There must be a VTK rendering component

Re: [Paraview] advice for 3d visualization?

2008-10-09 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
You could run your data through the Delaunay 3D filter to generate tetrahedra connecting the nodes. -Ken On 10/9/08 11:37 AM, John Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am solving problems of the nodes and edges of a tetrahedral mesh. Since nodes and edges are the only entities I am

Re: [Paraview] Annotate Time with legacy vtk series

2008-10-10 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
No, that is the wrong way to go about it. Changing the timekeeper time will adjust the times sent to the reader. You will still have the mismatch ParaView will not load in all of the time steps that you want. Instead, apply the Temporal Shift Scale filter to your data to adjust its range to the

Re: [Paraview] Annotate Time with legacy vtk series

2008-10-13 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
to set up keyframes. Normally its all automatic. hoogs -Original Message- From: Moreland, Kenneth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 11/10/2008 12:08 AM To: Jason Hoogland; paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] Annotate Time with legacy vtk series No, that is the wrong

Re: [Paraview] widen listings

2008-10-13 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Have you tried resizing the open file dialog box? It works for me on my Mac and when I xhost from Linux. -Ken On 10/13/08 3:28 PM, John Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have some long file names, which are differentiated by the last few characters. Unfortunately, they are impossible

Re: [Paraview] unstructured trasient format

2008-10-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Now that I read this again, I am unsure if you are speaking directly of the native VTK .vtu files (or perhaps legacy .vtk files) or if you are asking generally about the file formats that ParaView supports. I will answer both. The native VTK unstructured grid files do not directly support data

Re: [Paraview] Crash when extracting surface in a big mesh

2008-10-28 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Paul, Have you compiled with VTK_USE_64BIT_IDS set to on? I wouldn't think you would be needing an id 2^31, but if you did that could cause problems. -Ken On 10/28/08 2:12 AM, Paul Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is running the latest CVS version, linux (Suse 9.3) and 64bit. It is

Re: [Paraview] Paraview and ICE-T

2008-10-28 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
The blackrose and amber5 dashboards all compile IceT, and they look like they are working well enough. You can use the dashboard to look at their compile settings. You may start by upgrading your CMake if you have not done so recently. -Ken On 10/28/08 2:30 AM, Mengda Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Paraview] Simple Visualization

2008-10-30 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
To be honest, ParaView doesn't make loading in a simple list of coordinates as easy as it should. It's something we will be working on in the near future (e.g. bug #5016, http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=5016). However, it is still possible to do what you want, it just takes a few more

[Paraview] Building a plugin that works with Mac binary distribution

2008-11-03 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Does anyone have experience building a plugin on Mac that will work with the binary distribution of ParaView? I tried getting the 3.4.0 source, compiling with the same dependent libraries as listed on the Wiki, and then compiling my plugin against that, but it did not work. I think the issue is

Re: [Paraview] problem starting the pvserver

2008-11-06 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I am a bit confused by your question. Are you saying the first example works and the second does not? I am also confused by what you are trying to set up. Are you trying to run the server on one of your machines and the client on the other, or are you trying to run a parallel server using

Re: [Paraview] How to use Paraview to visualize large volume data in real-time on shared-memory supercomputer?

2008-11-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Aaron, You're on the right track. In order to use ParaView on a shared memory machine, you need to run pvserver with mpirun. It might seem weird to use a distributed memory program on a shared memory machine, but some basic tests we have done suggest that it is actually a pretty efficient way

Re: [Paraview] Display number of cells over time

2008-11-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Matthias, There is no direct way to do this. This is the first time I have heard a request like this. However, I have thought of a way to do what you want without writing any code. It's a real hack and a bit painful, but it works. First, run you data through the histogram filter. Make the

Re: [Paraview] scalar to vector filter

2008-11-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
What do you mean did not work for transient data? Do you mean that when you change time steps the output of the calculator filter is not changing appropriately? -Ken On 11/14/08 11:05 AM, Dominik Szczerba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to achieve it using the Calculator filter and save

Re: [Paraview] scalar to vector filter

2008-11-16 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
on your data? If you could post your data, that would be helpful. -Ken On 11/16/08 1:53 AM, Dominik Szczerba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly - it was not time-aware and was not updating. Dominik Moreland, Kenneth wrote: What do you mean did not work for transient data? Do you mean

Re: [Paraview] How to slice a 3D vector field?

2008-11-16 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
A simpler solution might be to change the seed type from Point Source to Line Source. By default, the line should be embedded in the slice you created. -Ken On 11/16/08 5:10 PM, Jacques Papper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You could try using the custom source streamtracer and use the plane

Re: [Paraview] Wireframe vs Surface representation

2008-11-18 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I don't know if I totally understand what the question is (an image might help), but it sounds like parts of the wireframe object are coincident to the surface object (that is, they occupy the same space). If so, chances are you are getting z-fighting; you probably see parts of the wireframe

Re: [Paraview] Extension from Plugin-Reader does not apper - QT 4.4 issue?

2008-11-19 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
There are not quite enough details here to say exactly what your problem might be. Rather, I will try to answer your specific questions. * The extension(s) you specify in the Reader tag of your GUI_RESOURCE_FILES (along with the file description) should show up in the file types combo box of

Re: [Paraview] Paraview 3.4 cross-compilation (Cray XT4) : pvserver

2008-11-24 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Someone who actually did the technical work can correct me, but I believe the the current version of the Cray XT port was done against the Cray XT3 running catamount. Catamount does not support sockets, so all the socket code and anything relying on it was disabled. Thus, the first step is to

Re: [Paraview] How to view the multiple slices on a volumn rendered object?

2008-11-24 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Weicheng, The Auto Accept option mostly does what you want. Open up the ParaView options dialog box (Edit - Settings or ParaView - Preferences on Mac), go to the General page and click on the Auto Accept checkbox. Once you turn this on, you will never have to hit Apply; all changes get

Re: [Paraview] Example of displaying information

2008-11-24 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
A straightforward way of implementing this would be to add a custom view via a plugin. The Plugin HowTo Wiki page describes how to make a plugin with a custom view in it. The implementation to get the data you need to display in the view is up to you.

Re: [Paraview] Multiple temporal shifts still not working right

2008-11-24 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Nuts. I guess it wasn't fixed after all. I submitted a new bug report with your new description. http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=8156 Note that I think I found a workaround using the temporal cache filter. (Details in the bug report.) -Ken On 11/21/08 8:15 AM, Eric E. Monson

Re: [Paraview] Bug in Color Scale

2008-11-25 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Shi, I have not run into this, nor have I heard of anyone else who has. Could you tell us more about your data or, better yet, send us an example? One thing that has changed with the rescale range feature recently is that the range is now computed based on the values that appear throughout an

Re: [Paraview] Bug in Color Scale

2008-11-25 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
From: Moreland, Kenneth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shi Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; paraview@paraview.org paraview@paraview.org Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:50:42 AM Subject: Re: [Paraview] Bug in Color Scale Re: [Paraview] Bug in Color Scale Shi, I have not run

Re: [Paraview] Multiple temporal shifts still not working right

2008-11-25 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
are selected in the right order for the order in which the time is going to be stepped... Thanks, -Eric On Nov 24, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote: Nuts. I guess it wasn't fixed after all. I submitted a new bug report with your new description. http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php

Re: [Paraview] problem displaying ZoY points

2008-11-26 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I sent a response last Monday (attached). Did you not get it? -Ken On 11/26/08 10:21 AM, Ricardo Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Ricardo Reis wrote: I have a group of points in the ZoY plane. I want to display them as a surface. If they were in any other plane a

Re: [Paraview] comparing z= constant planes

2008-12-01 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
You can translate the output of the slice filter in the Z direction (or any other direction) using the Transform filter. -Ken On 11/28/08 8:20 AM, Stephen Wornom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to parallel planes offset by a constant z. I slice twice to get the two planes, z1 and z2 (z2= z1+

[Paraview] FW: vtkTree file problem with Paraview

2008-12-01 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I am forwarding this on to the InfoVis list where the developers of OverView are probably paying more attention right now. -Ken -- Forwarded Message From: Matteo Campana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:45:15 -0700 To: paraview@paraview.org Subject: [Paraview] vtkTree file

Re: [Paraview] Ghost cells for standalone Paraview

2008-12-02 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
If you are not running in parallel, you do not need ghost cells. If necessary, just run the Clean to Grid filter to restore connectivity. -Ken On 12/2/08 7:10 AM, Fabian Wein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, To close my isosurfaces of my unstructured grid I need ghost cells. I found that D3 is

Re: [Paraview] coloring by cell normals not preserved in undo stack

2008-12-02 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Geoff, The magnitude of the cell normals (which is what you are coloring by) should be 1 for all of them. The different colors you are seeing initially are simply due to numerical error. As you are doing undo/redo, some (non-significant) precision must be lost. I don't know why there is a

Re: [Paraview] Multiple Screens

2008-12-03 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Christian, Did you mistype the first mpirun command? Running pvclient in mpirun has never worked in any ParaView version. With ParaView 3.4, the following similar launch command should work (assuming that your version of mpirun supports the : argument): mpirun -np 1 ./pvserver -display :0.0

Re: [Paraview] Ghost cells for standalone Paraview

2008-12-03 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
OK, I understand now. What you are asking for is not exactly what VTK/ParaView considers ghost cells. You want add a layer of points around the boundary of an image data (i.e. 3D uniform regular grid) with minimum values to force the contour filter to create closed surfaces. I don't know of

Re: [Paraview] Wtrlt: Antw: Re: Multiple Screens

2008-12-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
When in desktop delivery mode, ParaView does not make any effort to show rendering results, so the windows might not behave as expected. If you want to be sure that pvserver can create windows on each display, you can start it in tiled display mode. Add the argments -tdx=3 -tdy=1 to pvserver.

Re: [Paraview] Not a valid QT plugin on windows

2008-12-16 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Odd that only one of the two plugins get loaded. Perhaps the server plugin is missing some symbols. Try running the depends program on it and make sure it can find all of the dependent dlls. Also make sure that the server manager initialization function is properly exported (I think it's

Re: [Paraview] Not a valid QT plugin on windows

2008-12-17 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
The depends command (provided by MSVC) provides information on one dll both about the other libraries it depends on and the symbols (variables and functions) that it exports. I believe the information is at the right at a bit below center in the GUI. For a ParaView plugin, there are typically

Re: [Paraview] High Quality Triangulation

2008-12-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Could you explain what you mean by bad triangulation? I looked at the results with the cylinder and the box sources, and the triangulation looks perfect to me: Each polygon is broken up evenly into smaller triangles. Were you expecting some other result? -Ken On 12/19/08 8:34 AM, Chaman

Re: [Paraview] Random Colormap

2008-12-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
There is no easy way to create a random color map in ParaView, but it is not hard to make a random scalar field. For example, you could use the Random Vectors filter. -Ken On 12/20/08 10:49 AM, Chaman Singh Verma csv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have one specific requirement and hope

Re: [Paraview] Creating Plugins

2008-12-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Benjamin, I don't think any of the developers are aware of bug that causes the VTK wrapping parser to hang. Could you send us a piece of code that demonstrates the problem? -Ken On 12/19/08 6:33 AM, Benjamin Schindler bschind...@student.ethz.ch wrote: I just renamed the baseclass now (It

Re: [Paraview] Confused over the term sort first and sort last rendering modes

2009-01-12 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
ParaView implements sort-last parallel rendering. If the amount of geometry you are rendering is small, ParaView also has the ability to collect the geometry and render it wherever it is being displayed. You could call that second mode sort-last rendering, but it is missing the screen

Re: [Paraview] Adding custom chart view

2009-01-13 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Nehme, It sounds like you do not need to create a custom view. You should be able to create a filter that generates the data and then use the existing bar chart and x-y plot views. You can specify a Hint in the server manager xml for a filter to tell it which view to go to. See the

Re: [Paraview] Difference between Compute Derivatives and Gradient (Unstructured)...

2009-01-13 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
So its possible to change the gradient-filter to get a speedup? - nice. Please let me know when this change is checked in into the cvs-version of paraview - i will check it here again. When I sent out my original email, I had already checked into CVS the gradient filter optimization. This

Re: [Paraview] Add support for PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS?

2009-01-14 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
and at some point may be obsolete. PARAVIEW_EXTRA_EXTERNAL_MODULES is useful when deploying ParaView with extensions on a platform that does not support shared libraries (for example Cray Xts and IBM Blue Genes). -berk On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Moreland, Kenneth kmo...@sandia.gov wrote

Re: [Paraview] CVS head crashes on Leopard at vtkCarbonRenderWindow

2009-01-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I have been having the same problems. I vote we back out of the 1.75 changes and ignore the warnings. -Ken On 1/15/09 7:10 AM, Takuya OSHIMA osh...@eng.niigata-u.ac.jp wrote: Yes it's a 32-bit binary as far as I understand in the same way. Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D. Faculty of Engineering,

Re: [Paraview] Problems with the new color legend

2009-01-15 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
The minimum and the maximum values show up differently (not aligned with) from the rest of tick values. They seem to be different from vertical (see vertical.png) to horizontal (see horizontal.png). That is by design. The min/max labels are placed where they can be shown with the maximum

Re: [Paraview] How can someone insert an image to animation?

2009-01-19 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
The main question was: How could someone insert graphical object (*.png, *.eps) (for example legend which had been painted in Photoshop or text from Tex) into the ParaView stage? In case it was not clear before, you can load up a .png file just like any other data file (File - Open). You can

Re: [Paraview] Isosurface

2009-01-21 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Yes, you need cells to create an isosurface. The cells specify how the scalar field should be interpolated between points. The easiest way to impose cells on your points is to run the Delaunay 3D filter on them. -Ken On 1/20/09 8:17 PM, Mare Libero marelibe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I am

Re: [Paraview] animation with changing visibility

2009-01-21 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Animating the visibility is the right thing to do. If you have not already, try changing the interpolation from ramp to step. That might be the problem. -Ken On 1/21/09 10:39 AM, Jared Hawkins jared.hawk...@tufts.edu wrote: To All, I have searched around a bit for some documentation on

Re: [Paraview] animation with changing visibility

2009-01-21 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
, what value turns it back on?? Thanks again. -jared Moreland, Kenneth wrote: Re: [Paraview] animation with changing visibility Animating the visibility is the right thing to do. If you have not already, try changing the interpolation from ramp to step. That might be the problem. -Ken On 1

Re: [Paraview] basic python paraview setup question

2009-01-23 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
First, I would like to mention that the ParaView binaries come with a program called pvpython that is basically just a python interpreter with the paths set up. That said, I understand that it is not always practical to use pvpython in lieu of the default python interpreter, so to actually

Re: [Paraview] basic python paraview setup question

2009-01-23 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
, Sreejith Kuttanikkad sreejit...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Moreland, Kenneth kmo...@sandia.gov wrote: First, I would like to mention that the ParaView binaries come with a program called pvpython that is basically just a python interpreter with the paths set up. That said

[Paraview] Compute cell area

2009-01-23 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Is there an easy way to compute the area of a 2D cell? -Ken Kenneth Moreland *** Sandia National Laboratories *** *** *** *** email: kmo...@sandia.gov ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 *** web: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kmorel

[Paraview] Adding python modules in plugins

2009-01-23 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Is there a way to add a python module, implemented with python code, in a plugin (without jumping through a bunch of hoops finding a python script on the user's computer)? -Ken Kenneth Moreland *** Sandia National Laboratories *** *** *** *** email:

Re: [Paraview] Exporting pictures in batch-mode...

2009-01-26 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Stefan, pvpython is what you want to use in this case. If you have not used the ParaView python scripting, you should take a look at the documentation on the ParaView Wiki. http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting Let us know if you run into any problems. -Ken On 1/26/09

Re: [Paraview] Compute cell area

2009-01-26 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I didn't think of that filter. Thanks, Clint. -Ken On 1/26/09 10:34 AM, Clinton Stimpson clin...@elemtech.com wrote: What about the Mesh Quality filter? You can select Area for triangle and quadrilateral quality. You get a cell data array with results for each cell. Clint Moreland

Re: [Paraview] Compute cell area

2009-01-26 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
John, Thanks. I already look into both of those filters. Although both filters internally compute polygon area, I did not see a way to get the per-cell area (written out to a cell data array) from them. When I run vtkIntegrateAttributes, I get a single value back that is the total area of

Re: [Paraview] Paraview on a tiled display

2009-02-02 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
pvserver should be creating windows on the xhost specified by the DISPLAY environment variable. Are you sure that your xhost is properly accepting and showing windows? What happens if you replace pvserver with a program like glxgears in the mpirun call you show below? Do you see an OpenGL

Re: [Paraview] Paraview on a tiled display

2009-02-03 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
at 1:00 PM, Moreland, Kenneth kmo...@sandia.gov wrote: Sorry, but that's not true at all. It is in fact encouraged to have more processors than tiles when driving a tiled display. All the processors, even the non-display ones, will be involved in the processing and parallel rendering work

Re: [Paraview] Paraview on a tiled display

2009-02-03 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
This is just speculation, but it could be an issue with multiple processes opening windows on the same graphics card. My guess is that a non display process is drawing a window in front of the display process. I often run multiple processes on each node in our visualization cluster for

Re: [Paraview] Warning reading ascii data

2009-02-04 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I don't profess to be an expert on the VTK file reader, but looking at the source code leads me to believe that the number of entries in one of the arrays in your file does not match the number identified above it. Specifically, there are probably less entries than declared. For example, in

Re: [Paraview] Trying to plot signals to paraview

2009-02-04 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
ParaView is capable of reading in a regular grid of data, mapping a color to it, and drawing it scaled on the screen. If your data is simply a raw array written to disk, then ParaView can read that in directly. Does that basically solve your problem? There are two ways to erase the useless

Re: [Paraview] Trying to plot signals to paraview

2009-02-04 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
to plot and save. I'll try to plot full image. For unstructured grid I don't know how to declare topology, I believe I need something like delaunay (triangulation) at matlab? Thanks, George Markomanolis On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Moreland, Kenneth kmo...@sandia.gov wrote: ParaView is capable

Re: [Paraview] Using real timesteps in pvd files

2009-02-04 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I would vote yes on that. Although localization like this is good in a UI, it seems to be a pointless complicate to a data file in which people generally don't look at the contents. -Ken On 2/4/09 3:48 PM, Berk Geveci berk.gev...@kitware.com wrote: Hmmm. Weird. We are using strtod to make

Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview

2009-02-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
You need the DISPLAY environment variable because the standard way to get a gfx context on *nix is through an X server. To create an off-screen rendering context you first have to connect to an X server. It is also a convenient way to specify which GPU you want to use if a system has more

Re: [Paraview] C++ Reader execution

2009-02-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I don't know the answer to this question, but you may want to look at the code for the pqObjectInspectorWidget::accept() method. This is the method that gets called when you hit the Apply button. -Ken On 2/5/09 2:49 PM, Juan Fernando Duque Lombana jduqu...@eafit.edu.co wrote: Good day, I'm

Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview

2009-02-05 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
. From: Moreland, Kenneth [mailto:kmo...@sandia.gov] Sent: Thu 2/5/2009 2:27 PM To: Jim Montine; David E DeMarle Cc: paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] remote rendering with paraview You need the DISPLAY environment variable because the standard way to get

Re: [Paraview] Question on distributed processing and rendering using Paraview and MPI

2009-02-06 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Chewping, Let me start with a nomenclature normalization. What you call master/slave nodes we call client/server nodes. We make this distinction because the client needs to be nowhere near the server nodes (I have attached a client to a server running on the other side of the country). Your

Re: [Paraview] Filter Plugin in Client/Server ParaView

2009-02-09 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
If your filter has any C++ code (and by your description it does) then you will have to compile the plugin on the SGI Cluster and load it there. As a general rule, it is usually safest to compile the plugin for both client and server and load it both places. -Ken On 2/9/09 7:03 AM, Rafael

[Paraview] Setting defaults for users (Was: Paraview Questions)

2009-02-09 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
The settings for LOD threshold and default color maps are stored in the user's settings file (~/.config/ParaView/ParaView3.X.ini on *nix machines). You could try installing a default version of the settings file for your in-house distribution. Another solution is to hack the defaults in the

Re: [Paraview] particle tracking

2009-02-12 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
That's a really cool solution. Bravo Jean. -Ken On 2/12/09 6:58 AM, Jean Favre jfa...@cscs.ch wrote: Berk Geveci wrote: To animate particles in a steady-state flow field, I'd think that you would generate streamlines and then somehow animate particles along those. this is exactly the

Re: [Paraview] particle tracking

2009-02-12 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
This conversation has basically become academic, but it would also be pretty easy to create a filter that reported a bunch of time steps and just passed the same data every time. The particle tracer would thing it was a time varying data even though it was not. Jean's solution is still easier

Re: [Paraview] Extract cell type from unstructured grid

2009-02-18 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Paul, I don't know of any existing filter to do that, but a pretty simple programmable filter can do it. Here is the script that will achieve it. Just create a custom filter and copy this into the script. input = self.GetUnstructuredGridInput() output = self.GetUnstructuredGridOutput()

Re: [Paraview] MPI performance and VGL error

2009-02-18 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I will have to guess at why, say, contour is running slower. I can think of two possibilities (but not claiming that either is necessarily correct). 1. Perhaps the data is not distributed. If the reader is naive (you didn't specify what data you were reading), it could be just loading all

Re: [Paraview] Emissive polygons?

2009-02-18 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I'm afraid not. It looks like that functionality is not even support in VTK. Implementing light emission that is constant for whole objects would be pretty straightforward, but would require modifying code all the way to VTK's rendering layer. -Ken On 2/18/09 1:55 PM, Eric E. Monson

Re: [Paraview] Emissive polygons?

2009-02-19 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
18, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Moreland, Kenneth kmo...@sandia.gov wrote: I'm afraid not. It looks like that functionality is not even support in VTK. Implementing light emission that is constant for whole objects would be pretty straightforward, but would require modifying code all the way to VTK's

Re: [Paraview] vtkCompositeDataSet - memory ?

2009-02-20 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
You can share the points by simply creating one vtkPoints object and then passing those points to all the unstructured grids in your data object. Then all the blocks will be sharing that data. Note, however, that ParaView will not actually check that. Thus it will probably incorrectly count

Re: [Paraview] paraview plugin

2009-02-23 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Offhand, I don't specifically recognize this error. I'm not sure there is enough information here to adequately diagnose the problem. -Ken On 2/23/09 9:47 AM, Biao She sheb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone. I have successfully created a plugin for paraview in Linux. Now I want to move it to

Re: [Paraview] Legacy FIELD files

2009-02-24 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
That's bug 5887: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=5887 Do you have a particular reason to need this functionality? This bug has never been high priority because there does not seem to be any real need for it. That file is the only example I have ever run into of a legacy VTK file with

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