[Paraview] On more filter optional parameters setup

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Fucang,

After you get this working, with our help, we should work together to
write a wiki page that describes how more filter parameters can be
exposed in ParaView. Last week, I had the idea of starting a series of
recipes pages for the ParaView community to share knowledge. This
would be a good start.

-berk

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:34 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> Sure enough, according to the paraview plugins wiki you don't even
> need the CMakeLists.txt (and thus to compile). Just write the XML file
> that defines your new proxy and use the plugin manager to load it.
>
> cool,
> Dave
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Unless I remember it wrong, there is also a way of simply loading the
>> server manager xml instead of a plugin.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:11 AM, David E DeMarle
>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> You can of course modify the paraview source and recompile.
>>> Specifically what you would do is edit the XML element that defines
>>> the proxy for that filter in Servers/ServerManager/filter.xml in order
>>> to add additional property definitions to let paraview expose those
>>> missing filter methods.
>>>
>>> An alternative way to do it is to write a plugin, consisting of a
>>> small CMakeLists.txt file and a small XML file and recompile only
>>> that. The XML file makes an alternative proxy for the same filter.
>>>
>>> The benefit of the second option is quicker compile time and better
>>> isolation of the modifications you are making to ParaView.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Dave DeMarle
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Jia Fucang <jiafucang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi, everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I often use Paraview for visualization of medical object geometry models
>>>> and do some filtering. But I noticed that Paraview does not offer many
>>>> parameters setup by user, like VTK filters. For example,
>>>> SmoothPolyDataFilter,
>>>> it can be used like
>>>>     vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter *smoother = vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter::New();
>>>>     smoother->SetInput(surface->GetOutput());
>>>>
>>>>     smoother->SetRelaxationFactor(0.1);
>>>>     smoother->SetFeatureAngle(60);
>>>>     smoother->FeatureEdgeSmoothingOff();
>>>>     smoother->BoundarySmoothingOff();
>>>>
>>>>     smoother->SetNumberOfIterations(50);
>>>>     smoother->SetConvergence(0);
>>>>
>>>> Paraview 3.4.0 only display "Number of Iterations" and "Convergence" for
>>>> user to setup. This often does not provide good effect like the C++ one.
>>>>
>>>> Another example is
>>>> vtkDecimatePro *decimate = vtkDecimatePro::New();
>>>>     decimate->SetInput(smoother->GetOutput());
>>>>
>>>>     decimate->SplittingOff();
>>>>     decimate->SetErrorIsAbsolute(5);
>>>>     decimate->SetDegree(10);
>>>>     decimate->SetMaximumError(0.005);
>>>>
>>>>     decimate->SetTargetReduction(0.8);
>>>>     decimate->PreserveTopologyOn();
>>>>     decimate->SetFeatureAngle(30);
>>>>     decimate->BoundaryVertexDeletionOff();
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Corresponding filter in Paraview 3.4.0 only have following options to setup:
>>>>    Target Reduction, Preserve Topology, Feature Angle and BoundVertex
>>>> Deletion.
>>>>
>>>> I know that too much options may confuse user. I wonder if there are some
>>>> setup to
>>>> use more options. Or should I revise ParaView source code to recompile a
>>>> binary one.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Fucang
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 28 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
>