[Paraview] Calculating Volumes

[Ezequiel Quintana]

Charles,

Thanks for your answer. Reading the ParaView documentation it's supposed
I can use any VTK filter in ParaView (eventually,:-)), so I will make a
try.

Thanks again,
Ezequiel


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:13, Charles Law wrote:
> Ezequiel,
> 
> Although VTK has a filter (vtkMassProperties) that calculates the volume of 
> a closed surface, it has not been integrated into ParaView.  You could save 
> out the data and use a VTK script to compute the volume.
> 
> Although it will not probably help you, you can get an estimate of the 
> volume if your structured data set is a uniform grid (image).  Just use 
> threshold instead of contour and look at the number of cells on the 
> information page.
> 
> Charles.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:48 PM 5/7/2004, Ezequiel Quintana wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I'm new to paraview but I would like to say I find it very useful to my
> >work (computational chemistry). I would like to ask you if there is any
> >way to calculate the volume which is inside of an isosurface.
> >I read a structured data set, h5 format, directly from an output
> >produced by a molecular modeling program. I generate the contour and
> >clip (using a sphere) the part of the surface I want to calculate the
> >volume of, wich is like a 3D ballon. So, how can I calculate the volume
> >of that ballon?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ezequiel
> >
> >
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