[Paraview] streamline tracer does not work on cut filter results

[Dominik Szczerba]

Ha it even works with official 3.3.0, only not my own compilation from 
CVS 05 June. So either it is my own compilation, or something still got 
broken in CVS slightly later. Attached is my CMakeCache. Any ideas?
- Dominik


Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> Wooo it works with PV 3.2.1 official. So something got broken in the CVS.
> -- Dominik
> 
> Dominik Szczerba wrote:
>> I already did it, as mentioned in a previous post. No, it does not 
>> work for me - does it work on my dataset for you?
>>
>> In any case, that is a trivialized example, my real case is not 
>> symmetric and a cut plane is not easily aligned with the axes.
>>
>> I suspect this might have to do with:
>>
>> 1) the funny range like 1.52e-18 - 1.22e-17 for point1/point2 in line 
>> source sub-window that I get hitting 'X/Y/Z Axis' button.
>>
>> 2) my mesh being quadratic and streamlining not working in such cases.
>>
>> Thanks for any hints.
>> -- Dominik
>>
>> Michael Ahlmann wrote:
>>> I had a similar problem when trying to visualize an axi-symmetric 
>>> data set.  The problem was that the streamlines were not confined to 
>>> the the axi-symmetric plane, and thus they were cut short at the 
>>> point where the flow went in the circumferential direction.  The fix 
>>> in my case was to use the calculator to develop a new, simplified 
>>> data set.
>>>
>>> V = V_x * ihat + V_y * jhat + 0 * khat
>>>
>>> This way, the axi-symmetric component is zero, and doesn't affect the 
>>> in plane streamlines.  I wonder if you could do something similar in 
>>> your case?  Although I presume it would be more complex given that 
>>> your cutting plane may not lay perfectly within one of the Cartesian 
>>> planes...
>>>
>>> -Michael
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> 

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