[Paraview] plotting integrated values of cutting plane at various offsets

Paul Edwards paul.m.edwards at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 11:17:14 EDT 2010


Hi Eric,

You are right - I would like one row of integrated values per contour.  I
don't understand how I can do this without "Integrate Attributes" though.

Regards,
Paul

On 30 September 2010 15:30, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:

> Could you be a bit more clear about what you're trying to do? It sounds
> like you're trying to take your contours and integrate some attributes over
> each of the contours separately so you get a table which contains as many
> rows as the number of contours (and maybe separate columns for each
> attribute)?
>
> As I was playing around I had trouble creating a programmable filter which
> has a polygonal mesh as input, but a vtkTable as output... Does anyone know
> if this is possible? Or, does vtkDataObjectToTable filter exist for ParaView
> so the data could be run through that before the programmable filter?
>
> If I'm understanding what you're trying to do, it seems like it should be
> possible to implement with a programmable filter if this piece can be
> accomplished, even without the Integrate Attributes filter.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Paul Edwards wrote:
>
> Ah - thanks for the tip!
>
> Does anyone know the way to call this in a programmable filter?  Or, is it
> even wrapped for python?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> On 30 September 2010 14:51, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hey Paul,
>>
>> I don't have an answer to your problem, but just wanted to point out that
>> vtkIntegrateAttributes is not part of VTK proper, but is listed on the
>> ParaView docs pages:
>>
>>
>> http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/html/classvtkIntegrateAttributes.html
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>  ------------------------------------------------------
>> Eric E Monson
>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>>
>>
>> On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Paul Edwards wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to create a table containing several rows of integrated values
>> for different contours with a programmable filter but I can't see how to use
>> the "Integrate Variables" filter.  In filters.xml it show as being called
>> vtkIntegrateAttributes but I cannot create this in python.  Also, there is
>> no webpage for this class on the nightly documentation site.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated,
>> Paul
>>
>> On 30 September 2010 08:57, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>wrote:
>>
>>>  Sorry Paul. I must have clicked reply instead of replay-all. I intended
>>> to post to the list
>>>
>>>
>>> JB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Paul Edwards [mailto:paul.m.edwards at gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* 30 September 2010 09:48
>>> *To:* Biddiscombe, John A.
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] plotting integrated values of cutting plane at
>>> various offsets
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks John - I'll have a go with a python programmable filter today.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>> On 30 September 2010 07:19, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>> I’d knock up a filter which stores the desired value each time it
>>> executes, and increments the list by one on each execution. This would build
>>> up a list (in a polydata or vtkTable for example) which could then be
>>> plotted on a graph. A reset button on a custom panel can be used to clear
>>> the values. I’ve done this a couple of times for time related filters when I
>>> wanted to plot something unusual over T.
>>>
>>>
>>> JB
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:
>>> paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Paul Edwards
>>> *Sent:* 29 September 2010 15:53
>>> *To:* paraview
>>> *Subject:* [Paraview] plotting integrated values of cutting plane at
>>> various offsets
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I have created a contour and integrated the output to produce a single
>>> value.  Is there a way to plot this value as the contour changes?  I have
>>> created an animation for the isosurface but cannot see a filter that I could
>>> use to plot these values across the range.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>
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