[Paraview] 3D scalar field contour visualisation not working from CSV

[David E DeMarle]

Apply the Delauney filter to fill in space between the infinately
small point samples you've got, then the slice and contour filters
will have something to cut into.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Oliver Zeldin
<robert.zeldin at dtc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to create contour and slice maps from a csv file
> (x,y,z,data1,data2) where x,y,z form a regular 3d array.
>
> I have no problems importing and visualising the data by selecting
> open-->table to points, then displaying and colouring the points by data1 or
> data2.
>
> The problem is that if I then select contour of slice filters, I get the
> options, but nothing displayed (the wire-frame of the slice is displayed,
> but no actual interpolated slice map. Nothing at all for contour.)
> In contour, I cannot select 'compute scalars' either (it is greyed out).
>
> thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Best,
>
> Oliver
> PhD candidate
> Biochemistry
> University of Oxford
>
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