[Paraview] Paraview 3 in a cave

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Hi Thiebaut,

ParaView > 3.0 does not have support for cave implemented yet. There was 
some major restructuring of the view modules during this time and 
unfortunately cave support got deferred until later. We will be working 
on reviving it after the upcoming release.

Utkarsh


Thiebaut Mochel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working at the CECPV (http://www-cecpv.u-strasbg.fr/rubrique3.html), 
> a small group at the mathematics  and computer science faculty of the 
> University of Strasbourg, France. The CECPV has a Workbench for 
> scientific visualization and for testing virtual reality applications.
> I'm currently trying to use Parview on the Workbench, that is in cave 
> mode. The version I use is Parview 3.1, CVS branch ParaView-3-1-July, 
> with openmpi 1.2.4, all that on Fedora Core 4 with the latest updates.
> We have three linux computers :
> - hpc-g00, the console. It is connected to a CRT display,
> - hpc-g01, connected to the first video projector which projects to the 
> top display of the workbench,
> - hpc-g02, connected to the second video projector, which projects to 
> the bottom display of the workbench.
> 
> The default host file for openmpi contains :
> hpc-g01 slots=1
> hpc-g02 slots=1
> 
> The file /home/cecpv/paraview/geometry/cave.pvx contains :
> <pvx>
> 
>  <Process Type="client">
>  </Process>
> 
>  <Process Type="server">
>           <Machine Name="hpc-g01"
>             Environment="DISPLAY=:0.0"
>             LowerLeft="-1.0 -1.0 0.0"
>             LowerRight="1.0 -1.0 0.0"
>             UpperLeft="-1.0 1.0 0.0" />
>           <Machine Name="hpc-g02"
>             Environment="DISPLAY=:0.0"
>             LowerLeft="-1.0 -1.5 1.0"
>             LowerRight="1.0 -1.5 1.0"
>             UpperLeft="-1.0 -1.0 0.0" />
>  </Process>
> </pvx>
> 
> I run on hpc-g00 :
> mpirun -np 2 -x DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/local/paraview31/bin/pvserver 
> /home/cecpv/paraview/geometry/cave.pvx
> 
> Then, also on hpc-g00 :
> paraview --server=hpc-g01 /home/cecpv/paraview/geometry/cave.pvx
> 
> paraview starts, but on the top display of the workbench, I see the same 
> picture as in the console, and in the bottom display, half of the 
> picture. It seems it does only compositing, and ignores the cave mode 
> and coordinates completely.
> 
> Many thanks in advance to anyone who helps me to make that work.
> Thiebaut.
>