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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>There are no
plans to change the behavior. This issue has been the source of many
disagreements amongst the ParaView developers. However, as convenient as
it is to have the color map rescale when the time changes (as well as easy to
implement), ultimately it creates animations that misrepresent how the data
changes over time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>Could you
describe your use case in more detail? What exactly do you mean by “looks
better”? Does the scalar range shift or grow over time? Both
cases will make all the colors map to near the same color for some or all time
steps. However, when you run the animation in a sequence, you will see
the overall color shift in a way that is highly indicative of how the scalar
changes over time. If you resize the scale at every time step, you will
surely get more detail per time step, but you will totally lose the sense of
how the variable changes over time (which is the point of playing over
time). Furthermore, the result could be highly misleading. The
constantly rescaled colors would show shifts of the scalar over time that
simply do not exist. They are an artifact of the rescaling. Do you
have some use case in which these concerns do not apply?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:maroon'>-Ken<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Chamakuri
Nagaiah [mailto:cham_nag@yahoo.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 19, 2007
7:58 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Moreland, Kenneth;
paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Paraview] Problem
with updating color map values</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear Kenneth,<br>
Thank you very much for your response. For certain simulations this feature is <br>
more useful. At present I am using some other visualization package, which <br>
supports rescaling the color map values when time step changes<br>
and it looks better for my simulation results. Just I would like to know<br>
whether paraview developers had some idea to include this option in
future<br>
releases. <br>
<br>
<br>
Nagaiah<br>
<br>
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<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>"Moreland,
Kenneth" <kmorel@sandia.gov></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</xml><![endif]-->ParaView never automatically rescales the color map when the
time step changes. This is by design as an animation with the color map
being rescaled would lead to extremely misleading visualizations.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Chamakuri Nagaiah<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 14, 2007
7:08 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Paraview] Problem with
updating color map values</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear All,<br>
<br>
I have the following problem : I have a bunch of time series data files, say<br>
file-001.vtu,...file-010.vtu, and I wan to make a movie using these
files.<br>
While creating the movie I don't want to fix the color map values in Scalar
bar.<br>
There is a "lock and unlock" button in "Edit color map
values". When this <br>
button toggled to unlock I should expect that during the each frame the color
map<br>
values should update automatically to the current frame maximum and minimum<br>
values. But I could not see the change of color map values during the
creation <br>
of movie. Is it possible to do this using paraview-2.6.2 version?<br>
<br>
Can anybody help me how to do this?<br>
<br>
thank you in advance.<br>
<br>
Nagaiah<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
using the Paraview 2.6.2 verson.<u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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