[Paraview] color by vectors

[Dominik Szczerba]

I see, yes, you are right, I can chose the magnitude in the edit color 
map. It still would be more natural as default (magnitude instead of 
component) but at least I dont have to manually run the calculator. 
Thank you!
Dominik

Berk Geveci wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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
>      >     http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi
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>     Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
>     Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
>     http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi <http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi>
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> 

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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi