[Paraview] Displaying an unstructured grid of tetrahedra

2011-10-12 Thread Michael Jackson
I am trying to visualize the output from some volume meshing code. The output is a bunch of Tetrahedra. When I load the file in paraview (3.12.0rc2) I see the surface just fine but I do not see any thing connected to the single interior node. I have checked the file by hand using pencil and

Re: [Paraview] Displaying an unstructured grid of tetrahedra

2011-10-12 Thread Eric E. Monson
Hey Mike, Yes, it's a standard ParaView thing that the interior nodes are left out for rendering efficiency. You can see this more dramatically if you generate a Wavelet Source and view it in Points representation – it only shows the surface vertices. Now with your data or this ImageData,

Re: [Paraview] Displaying an unstructured grid of tetrahedra

2011-10-12 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Yes. All the display modes except volume rendering show only things on the external surface. If you want to see that interior point, you can run the extract edges filter to show all of the edges or run the glyph filter using a 2D glyph of type vertex. -Ken On 10/12/11 9:49 AM, Michael Jackson

Re: [Paraview] Displaying an unstructured grid of tetrahedra

2011-10-12 Thread Michael Jackson
Thanks everyone for the help. I'll run the filter and examine what is presented. -- Mike Jackson www.bluequartz.net On Oct 12, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote: Yes. All the display modes except volume rendering show only things on the external surface. If you want to see that