[Paraview] 3D Glyph Reduction

[Brian C. Panneton (CONTR)]

I'm using custom polydata saved to obj/ply files that was used for other 
projects. The other projects needed the detail they provide. I, however, 
do not. So to speed up what I'm doing, I'd like to reduce them to a more 
manageable size.

pratik wrote:
> 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
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Powered by www.kitware.com
>>>>
>>>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at 
>>>> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>>>>
>>>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: 
>>>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView
>>>>
>>>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>>>
>>
>