[Paraview] color by vectors

[Dominik Szczerba]

This is version 2.5, release 0

Is it really too old?
Dominik

Wylie, Brian 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
>     <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