[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

Mon Mar 1 10:33:32 EST 2010

I've tried on Os X (4.6 Cocoa),  and Linux and still cannot reproduce
the issue. Mike, if you don't mind a little debugging, I can point you
to the relevant code.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> Well, this is really getting weird. I have to admit that I have NOT tried it
> on anything other than OS X with Qt/Cocoa. I am going to try with OS
> X/Qt-Carbon (Qt 4.6.2) and see what happens. I guess I'll try Windows Next.
>
> --
> Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>
>
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Sven Buijssen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tested my nightly clean builds of ParaView CVS HEAD (pulled via git) +
>> Qt 4.5.2 on
>> * SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
>> * Ubuntu 9.10 Server 64bit
>> * openSuSE 10.2 64bit
>> * openSuSE 11.1 32bit
>> * SPARC Solaris 10 64bit (PV CVS 2010-02-25, nothing newer as I'm having
>> some
>> trouble with Mesa since Dave's commit Fri Feb 26 17:57:21 2010 +0000)
>>
>> I see for all builds both point "Ids" and cell "Ids" in the Color By menu.
>>
>> I also checked the tarballs of all nightly builds since beginning of
>> February
>> 2010 on openSuSE 11.1 and could not reproduce the issue. Cell Ids is
>> always there.
>>
>> Sven
>>
>>
>> Michael Jackson wrote, On 01.03.2010 15:47:
>>>
>>> Here is a screen shot. I updated to latest cvs and recompiled. Still no
>>> joy. I even tried saving the data set to a new file, then loading the
>>> file. No luck there either. Any other suggestions are welcome. I do have
>>> the data file if you are interested.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ___________________________________________________________
>>> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Jérôme wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I just updated my worktree with the latest CVS. The problem
>>>> remains,
>>>> both in debug and release. Note that Yum (package manager of Fedora)
>>>> installs qt-4.6.2.
>>>>
>>>> I will trace the code tomorrow monday.
>>>>
>>>> Jerome
>>>>
>>>> 2010/2/28 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>>>> 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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