[Paraview] Will paraview calculate ISO-surfaces given...

Henry J. Karpf hjkarpf at sandia.gov
Wed Jun 9 09:26:01 EDT 2004


So given just the points and values it will do what i am thinking? 
 Right now i have just paraview installed, do i need to install VTK as 
well and then use it to generate the vtk file from my input?

Mattijs Janssens wrote:

> I assume the plane you are trying to create is given by a constant 
> value of your 'level set' field?
>
> The isosurface routine in vtk will do just that. It takes as input 
> values on vertices and interpolates linearly along the edges of the 
> cells to find the point where the iso value is. It then tries to 
> recreate a surface going through these point.
>
> Mattijs
>
> Henry J. Karpf wrote:
>
>> Will paraview calculate iso surfaces given a "cell" and then the 
>> level set value through that "cell".  Example, I have a whole bunch 
>> of Hexahedron cells, and then the points of the vertices of these 
>> cells, and a level set value at each of these points, I want to have 
>> paraview calculate and then render these level set planes. Is this 
>> possible?
>>
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