<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><div>Actually, I think a box with a dot in the middle would be a better icon for cell data, and a box with dots on its corners would be for point data. But that's just me. (Or is it...?)</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, that would work. A legend somehow would be nice though. And the more popup text the merrier (to a point!). The "hmm what is this?" action I think of as hovering and waiting for popup text, which is what I would do if I didn't see a legend. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Does Kitware have any human factors experts on staff? I know there are some classes at RPI - you might consider asking faculty if they could have some students analyze Paraview as a class project or something like that. I bet they would identify even more things that could enhance the "first-time-usability" that we don't even notice anymore since we use it so much.</div>
<div><br></div><div>David D.</div></div>