[Paraview-developers] Glyph Filter Uniform Spatial Distribution

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

You could also suggest that they can just change the default:
https://blog.kitware.com/new-in-paraview-easy-saving-of-custom-defaults-in-paraview/

Both AllPoints & Every N'th Point  can cause generation of "too many"
glyphs for really large datasets causing worse usability issues.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Mathieu Westphal
<mathieu.westphal at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a bunch of user angry at the default value of Uniform Spatial
> Distribution for the Glyph Filter, because with small datasets it doesn't
> generate anything and new users thinks the filter did not work.
>
> I would say that i got distracted by it at first as well, and since the
> settings is far down the panel , it is not easy to find at first use, and
> for a toolbar enabled filter it's not good.
>
> That being said, the easy fix is to change the default value AllPoints or
> Every N'th Point which at least generate one glyph, what do you think about
> that ?
>
> Another fix would be to ensure Uniform Spatial Distribution generate at
> least one glyph, but i'm afraid it would be incorrect algorithm wise ?
>
> Any thougths on that ?
>
> Mathieu Westphal
>
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