[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

[Michael Jackson]

Well. I am beginning to think it is something with my system. I just 
tried the PV 3.6.1 on an OS X 10.4.11 ppc machine and everything works 
fine. I tried the PV 3.6.1 Intel version on my MacBook Pro running 
10.5.8 and the same sequence did NOT work, ie, Cell Centered data was 
NOT shown in the Color By drop down list. Odd. I'm going to try a clean 
install of OS X and see what happens.

Mike Jackson.

On 3/3/2010 12:39 PM, Eric E. Monson wrote:
> I just tried the 3.6.2 binary on a MacBook booted off an old 10.5.7 usb drive backup and all of the Color By entries showed up just fine. The MacBook has the GMA 950 on-board graphics chipset. The Mac Pro I used before has the NVidia GeForce 8800 GT card. If you can think of any other specs that might be crucial, just drop me a line.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>
>    
>> 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