[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

[Michael Jackson]

I just fire up the 3.6.2 binary from Kitware on OS X 10.5.8 on a MacBook 
Pro with nVidea 8600M graphics card and the information tab is identical 
to your image BUT my "Color By" drop down only shows "Solid Color", 
"Ids", "Normals", all of which are "Point Data" and NOT "Cell Data".

   So not really sure what is up. If someone wants to remotely work on 
my machine email me off list and I'll get you setup.

Mike Jackson.

On 3/3/2010 12:06 PM, Eric E. Monson wrote:
> I don't have a CVS build on OS X 10.5.8 any more, but I booted into it 
> and ran the 3.6.2 binary and SphereSource->GenerateIds shows all four 
> arrays in Color By and three in Information.
>
> -Eric
>
>
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Jérôme wrote:
>
>> By my side, yes: SphereSource -> GenerateIds. You are right: Information
>> tab shows the celldata and pointdata array, whereas "Color by" has 
>> only point.
>>
>> Jerome
>>
>> 2010/3/3 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com 
>> <mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>>
>>
>>     Mmm..not sure if that'd help, since you said you can reproduce the
>>     issue with GenerateIds filter as well, right?
>>
>>     Utkarsh
>>
>>     On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Michael Jackson
>>     <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>>     <mailto:mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>> wrote:
>>     > Do you want my data file?
>>     >
>>     > Mike J.
>>     >
>>     > On 3/3/2010 9:28 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >> Mike, but the cell data shows up correctly on the information tab,
>>     >> right? So the cell data is being loaded, and even reported to
>>     >> ParaView. It's hard to imagine why it would be doing what it's
>>     doing,
>>     >> esp. with the precompiled binaries on Mac, since they work
>>     fine for
>>     >> me, on my Mac 10.6  :).
>>     >>
>>     >> It cannot be a mere GUI issue since from the debugging report that
>>     >> Mike gave us before, ParaView indeed doesn't report those cell
>>     arrays
>>     >> to the client when rendering. I just wish I could reproduce it
>>     somehow
>>     >> somewhere so I could debug it  :). I am going to test on Os X
>>     10.5 to
>>     >> see if we have any better luck.
>>     >>
>>     >> Utkarsh
>>
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