[Paraview] color by vectors

[Dominik Szczerba]

Indeed, if I recall correctly, I pulled the sources from cvs.
Thanks a lot,
Dominik

Berk Geveci wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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>         Behalf Of *Berk Geveci
>         *Sent:* Friday, July 28, 2006 8:48 AM
>         *To:* Dominik Szczerba
>         *Cc:* paraview at paraview.org <mailto: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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>         >     Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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>         Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
>         Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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> 

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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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