[Paraview] Scripting Paraview.

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hi Mike,

ParaView 3 will support this feature. In ParaView 2.* you will have to 
write a script that duplicate state for each dataset with the 
appropriate file name.

       Andy

Mike Jackson wrote:
> What I want to be able to do is load up one of these data sets and
> just apply the pipeline to it. The end result is a Triangle Surface
> mesh for 3D viewing and saving.
>
> I actually already have a program written with VTK that does just
> this. Except that the program is on one machine and Paraview is on
> another. I was hoping that if I could just have the pipeline ready in
> a script file, the scientists could bring me their .vti file, and then
> I can just apply the script and out pops my triangle mesh complete
> with proper coloring and all that.
>
> Also, Time animation is something that we would like to look at doing.
> I fiddled with some of it over the weekend but not ready to go much
> further with it right now.
>
> I was just hoping to be able to apply a script to an already loaded 
> dataset.
>
> Mike Jackson
>
> On 7/20/06, Andy Cedilnik <andy.cedilnik at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> You can write a script that will generate 600 states.
>>
>> What is really your end result? Do you want to animate? If so, just
>> click on timesteps and generate a time series out of your dataset.
>>
>>        Andy
>>
>> Mike Jackson wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >    I have a pipeline that was developed (Thanks Andy) in paraview for
>> > a given data set. I now have about 600 of those datasets. I see that I
>> > can save a session state from paraview and reload it when I relaunch
>> > Paraview. But the session state seems to be really tied to the
>> > datafile on disk. What I really want is to be able to load one of
>> > those data sets, then load up a script that acts on that dataset, not
>> > the original dataset from the disk.
>> >   How would I best accomplish this.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > ------
>> > Mike Jackson
>> > Senior Research Engineer/New Visualization Engineer
>> > mike.jackson at imts.us
>> >
>> >
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>>
>> -- 
>> Andy Cedilnik
>> Kitware Inc.
>>
>>
>
>


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Andy Cedilnik
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