[Paraview] Manipulating points.

Andrew Maclean andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 16:47:17 EST 2008


Thankyou for this, I will try it out.
Regards
   Andrew

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:47 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Andrew Maclean
> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to select a single point, change its 3D coordinates and
>> re-render it?
>> We are building 3D maps by hand and sometimes the coordinates of
>> points go awry so we need to adjust them.
>>
>> What I am hoping to do is to convert our files to vtp files, feed them
>> into ParaView and then hand edit any points that are wrong. The point
>> here is that ParaView is really good at visualisation so any errors
>> are readily apparent.
>>
>> Thanks for any information,
>> Andrew
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>
> Not automatically. You could do it with a lot of effort via selection
> and the programmable filter and the spreadsheet view.
>
> The process would be:
>
> Split the view top to bottom and make a spreadsheet view. Show the
> data's selected point values in the spreadsheet view.
>
> Insert a programmable filter, make it shallow copy through the point
> and cell associated attribute data.
>
> Split the 3D view again, now right to left, and make the original data
> visible in one view and the filter's output in the other. Link the
> cameras.
>
> Select a vertex in the original. It's index and coordinates will be
> shown in the spreadsheet view.
>
> At a line to the end of the python filters program and change that
> particular point's coordinates in the output data.
>
> Repeat the last two steps, adding to the program each time.
>
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Andrew J. P. Maclean
Centre for Autonomous Systems
The Rose Street Building J04
The University of Sydney  2006  NSW
AUSTRALIA
Ph: +61 2 9351 3283
Fax: +61 2 9351 7474
URL: http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/
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