[Paraview] 3D Glyph Reduction

[pratik]

hi,
Are you just using the default glyphs that come with Paraview? i think 
they include a maskpoints option too.
On Friday 27 May 2011 01:23 AM, Brian C. Panneton (CONTR) wrote:
> It has cells as well which I'd like to keep. Say it was a Car with 
> lots of detail. I want it to end up still looking like a car but with 
> 4800 points instead of 48000.
>
> As far as I can tell, maskpoints will remove the cell data.
>
> pratik wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Use the maskpoints filter.
>>
>> pratik
>> On Friday 27 May 2011 01:10 AM, Brian C. Panneton (CONTR) wrote:
>>> I have an obj file and a ply file which both have a lot of detail. 
>>> The ply has around 48000 points (1MB) and the obj has round 6000 
>>> points (.2MB). I want to use these two as glyphs for each point in 
>>> my reader. I am able to load them, but since they are huge on their 
>>> own, it bogs down ParaView. Is there a way to reduce the amount of 
>>> points, but maintain the basic structure?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian Panneton
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