[Paraview] forcing server to do all computations/rendering; unrelated, rendering vertices as pixels

[Christine Corbett Moran]

Hi thanks a lot, that worked perfectly for single pixel rendering;
somehow I had tried several dozen combinations of the display settings
while overlooking that one.

Christine

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:02 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> As for pixels, under display tab, there is a pixel size option. The default
> is 5 I think. Change that to 1 and use points representation.
> David E DeMarle
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> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Christine Corbett Moran
> <corbett at physik.uzh.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two questions I am hoping someone can give me some insight on.
>>
>> 1. How to force the server to do all computations and rendering?
>> After playing around with the ParaView server settings, I haven't yet
>> been able to force the server to do all computations and rendering,
>> only sending images to the client. I want to do this for testing
>> purposes. Is there a way to do this easily?
>>
>> 2.Rendering vertices as single pixels?
>> I am interested in displaying the vertices of my particle datasets as
>> a single pixel only. I currently use the vertex glyph which is more of
>> a small, multi-pixel square. I can approximate pixels by using a 2d
>> glyph with a small scale factor but this is a bit of a hack. Is there
>> a better way to do this I am just missing? Or what would I need to
>> modify?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christine
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