[Paraview] triangulate filter can't be selected

[Berk Geveci]

Yup, Delaunay 2d is what you want. Triangle filter break other polygon
types (quads for example) into triangles. It cannot construct
triangles from points.

http://paraview.org/OnlineHelpCurrent/TriangleFilter.html

-berk

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:06 PM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
> For the 3d case, I was told by a member of the list to use the
> tetrahedralize filter in order to be able to project my point and edge
> data to tetrahedral volumes.
>
> I am now trying to extend this to the 2d case.
>
> I assumed that having data in a plane, that I could just apply a
> triangulate filter, which was not possible to select.
>
> Through my own experimentation, I have found the Delaunay 2d filter
> works appropriately for interpolating the point data onto triangular
> shapes.
>
> Regards,
>
> Juan
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do. You are trying
>> to create tetrahedras given a set of points?
>>
>> -berk
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:57 PM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have a multi-block dataset (vtm referencing vtu files) loaded into
>>> paraview.  Each dataset is a set of points and edges.  For some reason
>>> I can't select triangulate from the filter.  I'd really like to see
>>> the vertex data shaded over the element.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do this?
>>>
>>> Juan
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