[Paraview] Further questions regarding 4D dataset

[Richard Beare]

Thanks,
I think there are problems with the paraview installation I'm using.
Trying to track it down now.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard,
> These steps make the MIP available by me :
> - open ParaView
> - Add MIP.py as macro ( menubar "Macros" -> "Add new macro"). as you noted,
> it adds a button in the toolbar
> - Open a volume (or add a volume source, eg Wavelet) and click on "Apply"
> - Change the representation to Volume ("Object inspector" panel -> "Display"
> tab -> "Style" frame -> "Representation" combobox -> "Volume"). You may want
> to choose GPU rendering : "Volume Mapper" -> GPU
> - Click on the newly added MIP button. Normally, it should change the volume
> representation to MIP one.
>
> If you want to go back to the usual volume rendering, do the same with the
> Composite.py macro.
>
> HTH
> Jerome
>
> 2011/7/15 Richard Beare <richard.beare at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for this.
>>
>> I'm not sure I'm doing things correctly. I can add the macros, leading
>> to buttons and menu items appearing, but selecting them doesn't appear
>> to do anything. I haven't used macros in paraview before, so I'm not
>> sure how to select what they actually get applied to. I am testing
>> with an image volume, or two image volumes.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> > Sweet. That's neat. We need to start thinking of a mechanism to
>> > share/distribute macros now :).
>> >
>> > Utkarsh
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Macro-ized !
>> >>
>> >> Richard, just add the attached py files as new macros and you will be
>> >> able
>> >> to switch between MIP, MinIP and Composite (the defaut one) volume
>> >> rendering.
>> >> These macros are more than minimalist (2 lines) : they can be easily
>> >> extended to check the current representation and toggle to volume
>> >> automatically.
>> >> I hope it will be helpful for you
>> >> Jerome
>> >>
>> >> 2011/7/12 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>> >>>
>> >>> Cool. I wasn't aware of this :).
>> >>>
>> >>> To change the blend mode from Python shell, all you do is following
>> >>> (with the source being volume rendering active in the pipeline
>> >>> browser):
>> >>>
>> >>> SetDisplayProperties(BlendMode="MaximumIntensity")
>> >>>
>> >>> Utkarsh
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> > I asked a while ago for the possibility to expose BlendMode (MIP is
>> >>> > one
>> >>> > of
>> >>> > the BlendMode) in rendering proxies and I was granted :
>> >>> >    http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/paraview/2009-October/014157.html
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > http://paraview.org/gitweb?p=ParaView.git;a=commit;h=3a07a88345910d5605e042287391e6623af9deb5
>> >>> >
>> >>> > By grep-ing current sources, I found that BlendMode is exposed for
>> >>> > GPUVolumeRayCastMapper and FixedPointVolumeRayCastMapper. However, I
>> >>> > don't
>> >>> > know how easily you can toggle the BlendMode from python shell...
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Jerome
>> >>> >
>> >>> > 2011/7/12 Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> No, ParaView does not support MIP at this time.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Utkarsh
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Sent from my iPad
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Richard Beare
>> >>> >> <richard.beare at gmail.com>
>> >>> >> wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> > Hi,
>> >>> >> > The volume rendering works successfully. Thank you for the
>> >>> >> > assistance.
>> >>> >> > Further investigations have suggested that Imaris is probably
>> >>> >> > performing simple maximum intensity projection, but enabling the
>> >>> >> > user
>> >>> >> > to rotate the volume and producing nice colour combinations. Is
>> >>> >> > there
>> >>> >> > any MIP facility in paraview?
>> >>> >> >
>> >>> >> > Thanks
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