[Paraview] Distance visualisation

[Bastil2001 at yahoo.de]

True. However, I have no 1:1 correspondance since geometries have
certain areas where they differ. I guess I need some kind of octree
tocalculate distance....

Regards BastiL

dave.demarle at kitware.com schrieb:
> Assuming the topology is the same and a 1:1 correspondance between the two, it would be very easy to do with the python programmable filter.
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> Script would:
> get hold of both input data sets
> copy either to the output data set
> make a new point associated double array and add it to the output
> make the array 3 components wide
> iterate over points
>   store del x,y,z in output array
>
> See the paraview wiki for examples that get0you 90% of the way there.
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> From:  BastiL2001 <bastil2001 at yahoo.de>
> Subj:  Re: [Paraview] Distance visualisation
> Date:  Sun Oct 4, 2009 9:12 am
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> To:  Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
> cc:  paraview at paraview.org
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> Ok it is lets say the "normal distance" between the elements. These two meshes represents two geometries which are very simular and I simply want to visualise where and how much the geometries differ....
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> Regards.
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> How do you define distance?
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> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:04 AM, BastiL2001 <bastil2001 at yahoo.de> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> I am currently looking for a way to visualise the distance between two unstructured 2D-grids. This means I would need a scalar field with the distance between the two grids which I want to visualise as a contour of one of the two grids.
>> Is there a way in Paraview to create this "distance" scalar field? Thanks.
>>
>> BastiL
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