[Paraview] color by vectors
Dominik Szczerba
domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch
Fri Jul 28 11:26:29 EDT 2006
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
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> > 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
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi
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