[Paraview] questions re VTK-formatted file

[pat marion]

>> it seemed to clear the views and I wasn't sure how to recover them

It may just be the visibility?  Take a look at the eyeball icons next to the
objects in the pipeline browser.

Pat

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Randy Heiland <heiland at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Pat,
>
> Thanks for the tips.  Sure enough, the clean-to-grid filter worked (seems
> odd though, as the contour filter would presumably use a slower alg on an
> unstruct grid).
>
> Regarding the "Convert to" 2D/3D views, when I tried it on that example, it
> seemed to clear the views and I wasn't sure how to recover them.  But I'll
> keep playing.
>
> -Randy
>
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:06 PM, pat marion wrote:
>
> For the color map question you asked inside your link, maybe you could
> double check the colormap you created.  Paraview's colormap editor can be a
> bit touchy, and it's easy to accidentally add extra points.  When I tried
> your example data, it correctly colored the point with scalar value 1 using
> the default color map.
>
> Try running clean-to-grid filter before you run the contour filter.  Clean
> to grid will convert the image data to unstructured grid data.  The contour
> filter will work after that.  Maybe someone else can tell you why it doesn't
> work without conversion.
>
> Paraview is being clever, and displaying your data by default in a "2D
> View."  The output of the contour filter is displayed in the 3D view, so
> that's why a new view pops open.  After you open your data, you can
> right-click the area above the render view and choose "Covert To" in the
> context menu to convert the 2D view to a 3D view.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Randy Heiland <heiland at indiana.edu>wrote:
>
>> I have some questions related to a specific datafile format (simple
>> example below).
>>
>> Q1:  what exactly is displayed by default when this file is opened?
>> Q2:  I can't seem to use a Contour filter on the data - is the format of
>> the file causing problems or something else?
>> Q3:  how does one force output results to go to an existing window, rather
>> than opening a new one?
>>
>> Here's a link with the same questions and some accompanying pics:
>> http://www.compucell3d.org/mediawiki1.7/index.php/Pv_simple
>>
>> thanks, Randy
>>
>> # vtk DataFile Version 3.0
>> silly data
>> ASCII
>> DATASET STRUCTURED_POINTS
>> DIMENSIONS 3 3 1
>> SPACING 1 1 1
>> ORIGIN 0 0 0
>> POINT_DATA 9
>> FIELD FieldData 2
>> foo 1 9 float
>> 3 3 3
>> 3 1 3
>> 3 3 3
>> bar 1 9 float
>> 4 4 4
>> 5 5 5
>> 6 6 6
>>
>>
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