[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

That is weird. I am on Mac with Qt 4.6.0, Cocoa and the latest CVS
ParaView and I see both point "Ids" and cell "Ids" in the Color By
menu. I'll test it out with my linux box at work tomorrow.

Utkarsh

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
>  Maybe it is Qt versions or ParaView versions? I am using Qt 4.6.1 compiled
> for Cocoa on OS X 10.5.8 Intel. I am using ParaView from <url =
> git://github.com/Kitware/ParaView.git> which was last updated about a week
> ago. When I get to the office on Monday I can try the same with ParaView
> 3.6.2 and see if the problem persists.
>
>  As far as Data, I _could_ share it, but like Jerome stated, you can
> reproduce it with a simple sphere source, then "Generate Normals". The
> complete source code can be found here:
>
> <href=http://www.bluequartz.net/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=PVMXADataModel.git;a=blob;f=Source/Server/CrystalInterfaceColoringFilter/vtkCrystalInterfaceColoringFilter.cpp;hb=de5d94a3a128a08a534230deca9057e4e57d0358>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>
> On Feb 28, 2010, at 7:51 AM, Jérôme wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I confirm the problem: even with your script, CELL_DATA are not enabled.
>> They don't appear in the "Color by" combo box, but the cell Ids are
>> present
>> in the Information panel. It works as expected when I try with POINT_DATA.
>>
>> I just had a doubt: Qt has been updated to 4.6 recently on my computer,
>> and
>> I don't know if my ParaView is up-to-date according to this...
>>
>> Let's update, compile, wait and see.
>>
>> Jerome
>>
>> 2010/2/28 Favre Jean <jfavre at cscs.ch>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I noted this problem a few days ago.
>> A *really* simple example:
>> - Add a SphereSource
>> - Connect to a "Generate Ids" filter
>> - Update: The information panel shows a 'Ids' array for points and for
>> cells, but
>> the "Color by" doesn't give the choice of cell array.
>>
>> Jerome
>> -----------------
>>
>> I cannot reproduce the problem. The following code works exactly as
>> expected and enables the coloring by POINT_DATA or CELL_DATA
>>
>> sph1 = Sphere()
>> genid1 = GenerateIds(Input=sph1)
>> rep1 = Show(genid1)
>> rep1.ColorArrayName = 'Ids'
>> rep1.ColorAttributeType = 'CELL_DATA'
>>
>> ----------------
>> Jean M. Favre
>> Swiss National Supercomputing Center
>
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