[Paraview] 3D Glyph Representation Question

[Brian C. Panneton (CONTR)]

That looks like what I am trying to do, however without user 
interaction. Do you ever incorporate that into a plugin?

Thanks,
Brian Panneton

Andreas Maier wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> it is possible that I made a similar thing before. If you please have a look 
> at 
>
> http://www.lnm.mw.tum.de/Members/ismail/red_d_fsi_models.jpeg
>
> The lung geometry to the right actually only consists of line elements. The 3D 
> feeling comes from the glyph filter, which  creates tubes over the 2D line 
> elements. A programmable filter was used to calculate and provide the glyph 
> filter with the radius and the orientation of the tubes. I can send you 
> screenshots of the single steps taken and the programmable filter script to 
> your  personal email (as I have no idea if the mailing list accepts file 
> attachments).
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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>
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>
> On Thursday 05 May 2011 10:32:07 pm Brian C. Panneton (CONTR) wrote:
>   
>> I currently have a reader that creates a vtkMultiBlockDataSet with two
>> blocks: one of which is a polydata consisting of vertices and lines. I
>> see the data in a 3D plot as pixels and lines connecting them. To make
>> it more visually appealing, I was looking into views and a saw that they
>> basically just load representations.  I now am trying to create a new
>> representation that replaces each of the vertices with a 3d glyph (lets
>> just say a cube for simplicity). Would I be going about this the correct
>> way if I were to derive a new representation from
>> vtkGlyph3DRepresentation, then load that representation in my view? Are
>> there any examples that show something similar to what I am trying to do?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian Panneton
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