[Paraview] TemporalParticlesToPathlines filter missing scalar

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Tue Jul 1 10:46:35 EDT 2014


Sounds like a bug. Do you have data/pipeline to reproduce it?

-berk


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Bill Sherman <shermanw at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am confused by something that the TemporalParticlesToPathlines
> filter seems to be doing.  It seems to be deleting or replacing
> one of the scalar fields in the "Pathlines" output.
>
> I have a rather simple pipeline:
>
>    Data
>    TemporalInterpolator
>    TemporalParticlesToPathlines
>       Pathlines
>         Tube
>       Particles
>         Glyph
>
> So the data has a handful of scalar values:
>    * density
>    * id
>    * mass
>    * type
>    * velocity (okay, not a scalar)
>    * vphi
>
> And all the filters offer these as available to color the data
> by -- except!  Except under the Pathlines (and Tube), the "mass"
> data is replaced by "TrailId".
>
> Of course, I'm trying to color the pathlines by the value of the
> particle "mass", so this is a problem for me.
>
> And I'm using the "id" field to make sure the particles are properly
> associated with their past selves in the "TemporalParticlesToPathlines"
> filter.
>
> Any thoughts?  Didn't find anything via Google (though I limited the
> search to the past year).
>
> Oh, and I tried this both with ParaView versions 4.0.1 and 4.1.0.
>
>         Thank you,
>         Bill
>
> --
> Bill Sherman
> Sr. Technology Advisor
> Advanced Visualization Lab
> Pervasive Technology Inst
> Indiana University
> shermanw at indiana.edu
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