[Paraview] Smoothen a Threshold View in Paraview (FE Meshed)

[Andy Bauer]

You could try the extract surface filter to get it to a polydata and then
the smooth surface filter.  The decimate filter may help out as well if you
tweak the parameters around.

Andy

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Alex Evanovic <alex.evanovic at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Menno,
>
> Thanks for your reply. My data is already point-based. I write my output
> as *vtkwriter.addVertexData(rho_i,"rho_i");* so the 'Cell data to point
> data' is disabled. Could you suggest an alternative to smoothen the data?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Alex
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Deij, Menno <M.Deij at marin.nl> wrote:
>
>>   Is your data cell-based or point-based? If cell-based, you could try
>> ‘Cell data to point data’ before contouring. The marching cubes algorithm
>> for contouring works better on point data, in my experience.****
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>>   *From:* paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:
>> paraview-bounces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Alex Evanovic
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:11 AM
>> *To:* paraview at paraview.org
>> *Subject:* [Paraview] Smoothen a Threshold View in Paraview (FE Meshed)**
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>> Hi Paraview Users,****
>>
>>
>> I have visualization problem. When I take a "Threshold" of my 3-D
>> countour plot, I get a view which looks not smooth due the the *Finite
>> Element Mesh*. Is there a way to smoothen the view?
>>
>> Please find attached the screenshot. I want to smoothen the sharp
>> protrusions.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex****
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