[Paraview] animation with changing visibility

[Jared Hawkins]

Ken,

Thanks for the quick feedback.  I have tried this, with no luck yet.  
Using this approach, how do you toggle visibility??  Does a value of 0 
turn visibility off?  If so, what value turns it back on??

Thanks again.

-jared

Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> Animating the visibility is the right thing to do.  If you have not 
> already, try changing the interpolation from ramp to step.  That might 
> be the problem.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 1/21/09 10:39 AM, "Jared Hawkins" <Jared.Hawkins at tufts.edu> wrote:
>
>     To All,
>
>     I have searched around a bit for some documentation on this (including
>     this mailing list), so my apologizes if it has been discussed before.
>
>     I am trying to create a simple animation using Paraview 3.4.0.  The
>     animation desired is: a 3D cube rotates for 5 seconds, becomes
>     invisible
>     and is replaced with a new object (a slice from the center of the 3D
>     cube).
>
>     It seemed fairly straight forward but I have been running into some
>     problems.  I have no problem with the rotation (using the Transform
>     filter) for 5 seconds.  I am running into trouble with changing the
>     visibility.  Specifically, making the 3D sphere turn invisible and
>     making the slice become visible at the appropriate time.  I have tried
>     animating the visibility of an object but am not sure how to do this
>     properly or what values to set.  I tried working with the assumption
>     that a visibility value of 0 meant invisible, but that didn't seem
>     to be
>     working.
>
>     Thanks for any help!
>
>     -jared
>
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