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

[Robert Maynard]

That example will create an executable that can be run from the command
line.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rob Nugen
<users-paraview.org at robnugen.com>wrote:

> 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
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Robert Maynard
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