[Paraview] color by vectors

[Berk Geveci]

Or he has the CVS version. Somehow, it reverted back to be X component. I'll
fix that soon.

-Berk

On 7/28/06, Wylie, Brian <bnwylie at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
>  All,
>
> Color by vector magnitude IS the default. So Dominik must have an old
> version of ParaView.
>
> (Advanced note: color by vector magnitude is not the default for volume
> rendering.... this is because for volume rendering, the magnitude has to be
> computed and added to every cell in the dataset...)
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> *From:* paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org [mailto:
> paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Berk
> Geveci
> *Sent:* Friday, July 28, 2006 8:48 AM
> *To:* Dominik Szczerba
> *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] color by vectors
>
> Unless I am missing something, you can color by magnitude without having
> to compute it with a calculator. Simply go to "Edit Color Map" and change
> which component/magnitude the surface is colored by. I guess it is an
> unexpected location to have that setting. We should probably change the
> button name to something like "Edit Color Settings...". We will change the
> default to be magnitude in the next release.
>
> -Berk
>
> On 7/28/06, Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> >
> > The unconviniency - not a problem - is that x-component is used to
> > colorize by default, while I doubt if anyone would ever use such a
> > default and anyway calculate the magnitude in the calculator filter.
> > regards,
> > Dominik
> >
> > Berk Geveci wrote:
> > > Is the problem the fact that x-component is the default or that you
> > > can't color by magnitude at all?
> > >
> > > -Berk
> > >
> > > On 7/26/06, *Dominik Szczerba* < domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch
> > > <mailto:domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Hi,
> > >     PV colorizes my cells in an unstructured mesh using the
> > x-component of
> > >     the VECTORS field only. I know I can use the calculator filter,
> > but
> > >     isint colorizing by vector magnitude more intuitive as default? Or
> > do I
> > >     make a simple error somewhere?
> > >     Thanks
> > >     Dominik
> > >     --
> > >     Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
> > >     Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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> > Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
> > Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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