[Paraview] batch create thumbnails for multiple .vtk files?

[Rob Nugen]

HI David

Thanks for the links!!  Do you know if the code at
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/Screenshot is
designed to be compiled and run from command line?  If so, then I
think it can do the trick if I feed it filenames with a bash script...

   cheers
   - Rob

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 21:37, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:

> This should do the trick:
> http://paraview.org/Wiki/Take_a_Screenshot_of_a_VTP_File
> (linked to from here: http://paraview.org/Wiki/Python_recipes (this
> could use some organizing) ).
>
> Or you probably don't need Paraview at all for this - why not use VTK directly?
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/Screenshot
>
> David

> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Rob Nugen
> <users-paraview.org at robnugen.com> wrote:
>> When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one person
>> to visualize the .vtk files which have been collected from another,
>> and to assume among the powers of the server that the separate and
>> manual loading of each would cause undue stress upon the user, a
>> decent respect to the opinions of the list requires that they should
>> declare a script which impels the computer to do the visualization.
>>
>> That's my creative way of asking if anyone has written a script to go
>> through thousands of .vtk files and create a screenshot of each.
>> During this project, we've created and collected a great number of
>> .vtk files, and want to essentially be able to make thumbnails of them
>> all so we know which should be saved and which can be discarded.
>>
>> The optimal solution would allow specifying the camera angle to be run
>> for each screenshot.
>>
>> Searching for "paraview 'save state'" (no outer quotes) seems to be in
>> the right direction.  I found
>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting but I don't see that
>> the same filters can be saved and applied to a different data set.
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>  - Rob