[Paraview] default glyph size

[Scott, W Alan]

This is bug number 5659.  Frankly, this has been a topic of debate for a while, since the solution is not trivial.

The problem is that ParaView creates a good scale for your glyph, using data from time step 0.  But, at time step 1, the data can be totally different.  For instance, if you use displacement from time step 0, displacement will be very near zero for time step 0, and (relative to time step zero) orders of magnitude larger for time step 1.

The same problem occurs with setting colors for variables, as well as 2d plot scales.

One option is to start using the last time step to create these scales, realizing that this will slow down the initial load times of large data.

Alan

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From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of David Doria
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:27 AM
Cc: ParaView
Subject: Re: [Paraview] default glyph size

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com<mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>> wrote:
Is this with ParaView CVS or 3.4?

Utarsh, it was with the CVS from a few days ago. When you just asked, I updated and recompiled (so I have the 10:30 am May 5 version) and the problem is still there.

Here is the model:
http://rpi.edu/~doriad/Scene.vtp

And the procedure:
1) Load the model
2) Filters -> Glyph
3) Change "Vectors" from "Colors" to "Normals"
4) Notice the glyphs are HUGE

Thanks,

Dave
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