[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 pvp

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 vtkImageGaussia

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 vtk

Re: [Paraview] paraview plugin for vtkImageGaussianSmooth, uniform grid slice representation smoothness

2012-03-14 Thread FISSELL
Hi Burlen, Utkarsh, Thanks much for your detailed answers, and the caveat. A developer here just told me that vtkImageGaussianSmooth might not be what I need. I am trying to achive a non-pixellated look in a rendering of a slice from a volume. Right now I read in the volume and choose a slice r

Re: [Paraview] paraview plugin for vtkImageGaussianSmooth, uniform grid slice representation smoothness

2012-03-14 Thread Burlen Loring
Hi Kate, Does changing from Slice representation to Surface representation make a difference? does your dataset have cell or point data? Burlen On 03/14/2012 01:27 PM, fiss...@pitt.edu wrote: Hi Burlen, Utkarsh, Thanks much for your detailed answers, and the caveat. A developer here just t

Re: [Paraview] paraview plugin for vtkImageGaussianSmooth, uniform grid slice representation smoothness

2012-03-14 Thread Burlen Loring
i guess it has to do with the way slice representation works? I'm sure Utkarsh knows, and may know a way to make it do what you want. I hadn't noticed this as our data has such a high resolution that the differences between slice and surface representations aren't showing up. but zooming in I