[Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

[Jérôme]

Utkarsh,
I will send you mine this -french- evening (I don't have it here). It could
be
interesting to compare with the Mike's bad one.

Jerome

2010/3/3 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>

> 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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