[Paraview] Volume and Contour Vis with CellData ?

[Berk Geveci]

I am pretty sure that mapper supports cell data. The problem is probably in the
ParaView logic somewhere...

-berk

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> It appears that the volume renderer does not support cell data, although
> that message is clearly misleading.  Perhaps someone who knows more about
> the volume renderer could elaborate.
>
> The contour filter does not work with cell data because a contour is a bit
> ill defined for cell data (which has no explicit interpolation of data).
>  You will have to convert to point data somehow before the contour filter
> will work.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 1/14/10 6:23 AM, "nsk nsk" <nazca.nsk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to visualize a *.vti file containing some CellData and I get the
> usual:
> "Cannot volume render since no point (or cell)data available." which is
> incorrect.
> Furthermore, it seems that contouring is also disabled with CellData.
>
> Is there a way to perform Volume and Contour visualization in that case?
> If not, will this option be available in the next release?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Nick
>
>
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