<div dir="ltr">Ok, that seems to work for the points. Thanks so much, Ken.<div><br></div><div>Not sure if this is also related to a similar issue. But when I add a 'Source -> Sphere' of radius = 1 (same radius as the grid) to the plot, there is different "illumination" between the surface of the sphere and the grid. This "effect" also changes with angle of view. In the attached figure you can clearly see how the illumination changes across the boundary between the surface of the sphere (lighter) and the grid (darker). This two surfaces should blend.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Once again, thank you!<div>-fernando</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_146d9dcbb54175fe" alt="Inline image 1" width="390" height="387"><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmorel@sandia.gov" target="_blank">kmorel@sandia.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>This looks like it might be caused by the coincident topology resolution feature in ParaView's rendering. The problem when trying to draw surfaces and points or lines on that surface as you are doing is that you get z-buffer fighting so that the points/lines
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<div>ParaView implements a couple of tricks to prevent this from happening, but they all sometimes cause shifts in the data so that they do not line up correctly. My suggestion is to first turn off coincident topology resolution and see if that fixes this problem
(although it might introduce a new one). Go to settings and then Render View -> General to get to the coincident topology resolution options.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Fernando Paolo <<a href="mailto:fspaolo@gmail.com" target="_blank">fspaolo@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, June 26, 2014 1:36 PM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Offset between grid and points on spherical projection<br>
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<div>I have a 2d grid projected on top of a spherical surface. On the same surface, and on top of the grid, I am also projecting a set of points delimiting the boundaries of the quantity in question. The problem is that both the grid and the points when plotted
together are displayed with an offset in between them (in the "r" direction from the spherical projection). Also interesting is the fact that when I change the angle of view the "offset" also changes (<u>see attached figures</u>).</div>
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<div>The coordinates of both the grid and the points are simply converted from spherical lon/lat/radius=1 to cartesian xyz.</div>
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<div>The points are projected using an UNSTRUCTURED GRID format (polydata ascii file). And the grid is projected using the XDMF 3DSMesh, with the following template:</div>
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<div> <Grid Name="Mesh" GridType="Uniform"></div>
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<div> <Topology TopologyType="3DSMesh" NumberOfElements="{0} {1} {2}"/></div>
<div> <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ"></div>
<div> <DataItem Name="Coordinates" Dimensions="{3} {4}" NumberType="Float" Precision="4" Format="HDF"></div>
<div> PATH_TO_XYZ</div>
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<div> </Geometry></div>
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<div> <Attribute Name="DATA_NAME" AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Cell"></div>
<div> <DataItem Dimensions="{5} {6} {7}" NumberType="Float" Precision="4" Format="HDF"></div>
<div> PATH_TO_DATA</div>
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<div>If both datasets have a radius = 1, why is there any offset in between them? Since this offset also changes with the angle of view, it seems that both datasets are not being projected on top of the same spherical surface (note: I've tried setting different
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<div>I appreciate any help!</div>
<div>-fernando</div>
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Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics<br>
Scripps Institution of Oceanography<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Fernando Paolo<br>Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics<br>Scripps Institution of Oceanography<br>University of California, San Diego<br><br>web: <a href="http://fspaolo.net" target="_blank">fspaolo.net</a>
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