[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

[Michael Jackson]

Is ParaView still on CVS or is that git location "official" to use? If  
the git location isn't really official, then maybe I should switch  
back to CVS?
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Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On Feb 28, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:

> 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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