[Paraview] Wish list

[Robert Ferrell]

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> Thanks Robert. This is great feedback. Comments are embedded below:
>
>> Time Series
>> ====================

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> I understand your requirements. We need to seriously consider how we
> need to handle time (and potentially other attributes associated with
> datasets). This is in our todo list but not necessarily a short term
> goal.

If there is something you can do "short term" which doesn't take too much
time away from other important stuff :) that would be extremely helpful.

>
>> Data Interrogation
>> ====================
>> I haven't had much luck using the line probe.  Among other things, I'd
>> like a line which changes with my animation.  Also, I can't figure out
>> how to tell it which field to plot.  And, it would be great if I could
>> display a few probed values in the image view.
>
> This is in active development. Charles is working on improving it.
>
>> I'd also like to be able to interogate along a contour and generate a
>> line plot.
>
> I don't exactly understand what "along a contour" means. How would you
> define the (poly)line along which to interrogate?

Define a curve by a contour, e.g. all X such that T(X) = 137.5.  Then,
make a line plot of some other variable, e.g. pressure, along that curve. 
This would be even more useful if I could create contour of cell center
coordinates.

>
>> Finally, it would be really nice if I could enter a mode where I could
>> mouse around and interrogate field values interactively.
>
> I wholeheartedly agree. This is on top of my personal wish list too.
> ParaView needs much better interrogation capabilities, including picking
> (cells, points, on surfaces), labeling (cells ids, point ids) and
> probing.

Excellent.  Looking forward to it.

thanks
-robert