[Paraview] Support for Graphs in Paraview

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Mon Mar 29 14:10:29 EDT 2010


Currently stock ParaView cannot show vtkGraph directly.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some filters that make graphs on point clouds. They currently derive
> from vtkGraphAlgorithm and then in FillInputPortInformation they accept a
> vtkDataSet instead of a vtkGraph. The output remains a vtkGraph. To
> visualize these things in Paraview, I have been using vtkGraphToPolyData to
> convert the graph to a polydata data which can be written to a vtp file.
> My question is: if I want to make a plugin for these graph-on-point-set
> creation filters, should I make a wrapper class that derives from
> vtkPolyDataAlgorithm and simply calls my class (which produces a vtkGraph)
> followed by a call to vtkGraphToPolyData? Or is there a way that Paraview
> can handle a vtkGraph output object directly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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