[Paraview-developers] A small suggestion - flag arrays as Scalars/Vectors/Normals

[David E DeMarle]

I've been convinced it is useful. Not so much yet for scalars, vectors
and tensors, but certainly for texture coordinates, normals, global
and pedigree ids.

The association (point or cell) is already indicated by either a
circle or box icon on the page.

I also suggest we add vector and tensor indicators. Knowing that an
array is a vector since it has three sets of min max pairs is not as
intuitive as a small arrow shaped icon would be.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:38 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Robert Maynard <robert.maynard at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I can see a couple uses where a user would like to know if texture
>> coordinates or normals have already been set on a dataset.
>>
>
> David DeMarle,
> I see your point, but a flag that showed how they are marked in the file
> (even if Paraview doesn't use them) could still make sense, no? I often use
> Paraview to simply inspect the contents of a file (not necessarily to
> display anything).
> Another thing, what about a flag specifying if the Data Array is on the
> PointData or CellData?
> Thanks,
>
> David D.