[Paraview] ParticlePathlines filter with vtk time series

Michael Müller Michael.Mueller at ifk.uni-stuttgart.de
Fri Nov 5 06:36:41 EDT 2010


Hi,

I got a question regarding the 'ParticlePathlines'-filter. What I want to do is, load particle time series follow its trajectories and colour the pathlines according to a certain variable... 
If I load my time series of vtk-files (see below), apply the 'ParticlePathlines'-filter and skip through the time steps I can follow the particle trajectories. I may also choose the variable for the particles itself (TPART, see below). But for the pathlines the only options are 'Solid Color' and 'TrailId', so it's not possible to color the tracks acc. to for example TPART... Why that?
- Is sth wrong with my file?
- Do I need another paraview filter?

I am currently using the downloaded version 3.8.1.

And by the way, it is working properly using simple csv file series: after loading the series, applying TableToPoints & ParticlePathlines filter I may choose TPART for coloring the pathlines...

Any hints on that?

Thanks.
Michael


sample files:
... vtk:
# vtk DataFile Version 3.0
Particles: at time step 1
ASCII
DATASET POLYDATA
POINTS      4 float
   1.00000e+00 1.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
   1.00000e+00 2.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
   2.00000e+00 2.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
   2.00000e+00 1.00000e+00 0.00000e+00
POINT_DATA  4
SCALARS TPART float 1
LOOKUP_TABLE DEFAULT
   3.00000e+02
   3.00000e+02
   3.00000e+02
   3.00000e+02

... csv:
   X,         Y,         Z,       TPART
 1.000,     1.000,     0.000,     300
 1.000,     2.000,     0.000,     300
 2.000,     2.000,     0.000,     300
 2.000,     1.000,     0.000,     300



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