[Paraview] Scripting Paraview.

[Mike Jackson]

No wait,
 we are missing my point. My point is that I have an existing Pipeline
defined. I want to be able to apply that pipeline to any dataset that
is loaded up in paraview. Right now I have .vti files of the data. I
also have a program that will convert those .vti files into surface
meshes (Actually, it takes data from an HDF5 file and creates the Mesh
using VTK as the pipeline.) I started dumping VTI files during the
process when I figured out Paraview could read them.

 If there was a way the tcl could get the "currently opened dataset",
then the remainder is cake. But from what I am hearing from this list
is that there isn't a way for the TCL scripting to get at the
currently opened dataset. It must start from a data file on disk. Is
that right?

Mike Jackson

On 7/20/06, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at gmail.com> wrote:
> This requires writing a state and then editing it. The state is a Tcl script
> so it should be relatively easy to put a loop around it. Just  a warning,
> creating 600 pipeline objects in a loop might not work well
> performance-wise. I would recommend deleting the pipeline objects at the end
> of each iteration.
> Also, working with trace as opposed to state might be easier. Trace does not
> save out as much info as state.
>
> -Berk
>
>
> On 7/20/06, Mike Jackson < imikejackson at gmail.com> 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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