[Paraview] Plotting line data on the surface of a sphere

[Dan Bower]

I ended up writing a vtkpython script to convert line data from a GMT
format to a vtkPolyData structure.  Write out the vtp file and load
into Paraview.  Seems to work well.

Cheers,

Dan

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Have you tried using "Plot On Intersection Curves" filter?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Dan Bower <danb at gps.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am plotting a spherical data volume using structuredgrid.  I also
>> want to plot line data on the surface of the sphere.  Presently the
>> line data (list of points) is in an x y multisegment GMT format (i.e.
>> lat lon)
>>
>> (1) A crude hack is to mesh the line data and then contour.  This
>> won't look great and is highly dependent on the resolution of the
>> mesh.
>> (2) Use the python filter.  Problem is, consecutive points don't
>> necessary join to each other (i.e. this is the reason for the
>> multi-segment -m option in GMT).
>>
>> Any advice much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
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