[Paraview] Follow a moving object

[Scott, W Alan]

Rick/Dave,
This has been reported as feature 6625, and frankly, would be REALLY NICE to have implemented.

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of David E DeMarle
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:44 PM
To: Rick Angelini
Cc: ParaView
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Follow a moving object

There is still no good way to do this in the UI. Please file a feature
request. I don't see any reason why this can't be made automatic in
the GUI.

In the meantime, the path I am thinking that one might do this at the
user level is to select the point/cell you want to follow, plot that
over time. Then via python you would extract the coordinates from that
plot and use them to set up camera keyframes.

Check the mailing list too, this has been discussed fairly recently
and there might have been a better solution. I can't seem to track
down the conversation for some reason though.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Rick Angelini
<rick.angelini at us.army.mil> wrote:
> I have a time series dataset and the geometry moves over time.  Is there a
> way to make the geometry so that it remains centered in the display window?
>   I want to keep the view centered on a part centroid, for instance.
> Otherwise, the object moves off of the screen over time .....
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