[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

Wed Mar 3 14:42:26 EST 2010

If someone is going further on that .ini corruption, I just noted something
maybe
useful. The problem is not that CellArray are not listed in the "Color by"
combo
box: If you try with
   PointSource -> GenerateIds
instead of
   SphereSource -> GenerateIds
then the CellArray is visible. As the sphere source integrates a normal
computation,
I suspect a sort of "MaxNumberOf..." blocking the number of arrays to 2.

Anyway, Mike found the workaround. Thanks again!

HTH
Jerome

2010/3/3 Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com>

> Fine! I renamed my ~/.config/ParaView/ParaView3.7.0.ini to
> ParaView3.7.0.ini.old.
> ParaView creates a new config file, and the cell arrays are back!
>
> Thanks a lot!
> For curiosity, I will remove line after line to find the bugging one.
>
> Jerome
>
> 2010/3/3 Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
>
> Drum roll please....... "Corrupt" set of paraview preferences. After
>> installing 10.5.8 clean from my installation disks everything worked as it
>> was supposed to. So that means the only difference is between the 2 user
>> environments. Preferences is the first to check. Looked in my home
>> directory, blew away the .config directory, launched paraview on the
>> "trouble" machine and now everything works. I could completely replicate
>> this issue simply by swapping in and out the "good" and "bad" preferences
>> for ParaView. I have the "bad" preferences if anyone wants them to try and
>> debug what was going on.
>>
>> Thanks to EVERYONE who helped me with ideas.
>>
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 3, 2010, at 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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