[Paraview] Moving slice with particle

[Thorsten Hater]

Most of building blocks I was able to figure out, but how do
I retrieve the second input from the servermanager?

Berk Geveci wrote:
> It is definitely doable with the programmable filter although not as
> trivial as it would be with a tool like VisTrails. The programmable
> filter can accept multiple inputs. You could use the point from on of
> its inputs to setup the parameter of an internal slice filter - which
> requires importing the vtk.graphics module. If you can't figure it
> out, let me know, I'll help.
>
> -berk
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Thorsten Hater <th at tp1.rub.de
> <mailto:th at tp1.rub.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I have encountered the following problem in a set of animations:
>     There is a moving particle in a field and I want to slice the field
>     at the particle's position (effectively the y-component of the
>     position).
>     Additionally the slice should move automatically with the particle
>     for making an animation.
>     Has anybody done something like this before?
>     The programmable filter seems a good point to start, but I need
>     at least two inputs for figuring out the offset.
>     Thanks in advance for any pointers or help!
>
>     Cheers,
>       Thorsten
>
>     -- 
>     Thorsten Hater
>     Institut fuer Theoretische Physik I
>     Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
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