[Paraview] is there a way to triangulate data in Paraview?

[Alejandro Aragon]

How do you write a plugin???

On May 8, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:

> Oh.  I see I misread the original message a bit.  It is asking for a  
> reader, not a writer.
>
> Yes, this could be a very simple writer plugin.
>
> -Ken
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dominik Szczerba [mailto:domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:40 AM
>> To: Moreland, Kenneth
>> Cc: Alejandro Aragon; paraview at paraview.org
>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] is there a way to triangulate data in  
>> Paraview?
>>
>> You can easilly do it with a custom writer plugin, can you not?
>> [DS]
>>
>> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>>> That's not supported yet, but it should be in the future.  It  
>>> basically
>> just requires some readers and/or filters, but I would like to see  
>> better
>> support for tables in ParaView before solving this in earnest.  This
>> feature request is more-or-less addressed by bug #5016.
>>>
>>> -Ken
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-
>> bounces at paraview.org]
>>>> On Behalf Of Alejandro Aragon
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:40 AM
>>>> To: paraview at paraview.org
>>>> Subject: [Paraview] is there a way to triangulate data in Paraview?
>>>>
>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>> Many of you may know Tecplot. One of the nice features about this
>>>> program, is that you can dump raw data in a file with no format at
>>>> all, then it takes the first three columns as the X, Y and Z
>>>> coordinates and the following columns as separate variables and you
>>>> can have as many of them as you want. Then you can triangulate the
>>>> data and automatically you can obtain contour plots and so on.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if this can also be done in Paraview and how. I've
>>>> been using the .vtu format so I'm used to the output of point and  
>>>> cell
>>>> data. I searched for a while for something similar in Paraview  
>>>> but I
>>>> found nothing. Can anyone mention if this can be done?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> aa
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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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