[Paraview] default glyph size

[David Doria]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:

>  This is bug number 5659.  Frankly, this has been a topic of debate for a
> while, since the solution is not trivial.
>
> The problem is that ParaView creates a good scale for your glyph, using
> data from time step 0.  But, at time step 1, the data can be totally
> different.  For instance, if you use displacement from time step 0,
> displacement will be very near zero for time step 0, and (relative to time
> step zero) orders of magnitude larger for time step 1.
>
> The same problem occurs with setting colors for variables, as well as 2d
> plot scales.
>
> One option is to start using the last time step to create these scales,
> realizing that this will slow down the initial load times of large data.
>
> Alan
>

Alan, I don't follow. There is only time 0 in this example, so shouldn't the
scale be well defined and constant? Bug 5659 seems to be dealing with the
problem of glyph sizes not updating properly, this is dealing with them not
being correct from the beginning.

David
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