[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Oh wow...that's interesting. I won't mind looking at the ini out of curiosity.

Utkarsh

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> 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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