[Paraview] Color Table File Format

[Burlen Loring]

http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=13159

On 05/08/2012 10:19 AM, Yumin Yuan wrote:
> Great work, Burlen, and you are right that the xml file format has not
> been updated to support the latest changes in color editor. Would you
> mind creating an entry for this in Mantis?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yumin
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Burlen Loring<bloring at lbl.gov>  wrote:
>> >  great! I have just spent some time experimenting with 3.14 and it seems that
>> >  the xml file format has not been updated to support the separation of color
>> >  control points and opacity control points. That would be a huge improvement
>> >  to support this in the xml format. by the way I also noticed an issue in the
>> >  first set of luts and fixed it, new file is on the wiki.
>> >
>> >
>> >  On 05/08/2012 08:31 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>  Thanks! That is exactly what I was looking for including the presets that
>>> >>  you came up with. Thanks again. My google fu was not strong today.
>>> >>  --
>>> >>  Mike Jackson<www.bluequartz.net>
>>> >>
>>> >>  On May 8, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Burlen Loring wrote:
>>> >>
>>>> >>>  Hi Guys,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>  I think it is minimally documented on the wiki.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>  http://paraview.org/Wiki/Colormaps
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>  A couple months ago I added 91 new lut's there. They are huge help for
>>>> >>>  making nice pseudo color plots, but they are cumbersome when volume
>>>> >>>  rendering since opacity is tied to each of the 256 color points. changing
>>>> >>>  the transfer function requires tweaking a large number of them and they are
>>>> >>>  very dense in the UI so you can't even click on them individually. I recall
>>>> >>>  in 3.14 the transfer function editor was improved, does pv now support a
>>>> >>>  separate opacity and color point in the transfer function color map table?
>>>> >>>  if so them was that also added to the xml format? If not this may be
>>>> >>>  something to think about in the future.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>  Burlen
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>  On 05/08/2012 07:14 AM, David E DeMarle wrote:
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>  I don't think it is documented anywhere.
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>  It is easy to put one together though by exporting a color map by
>>>>> >>>>  clicking "Save" and then "Export" on the "Color Scale Editor" dialog
>>>>> >>>>  and opening up the resulting xml file in a text editor. It also helps
>>>>> >>>>  to look at: Qt/Components/pqColorPresetManager::importColorMap()
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>  Feel free to document this on this wiki page:
>>>>> >>>>  http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Displaying_Data
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>  David E DeMarle
>>>>> >>>>  Kitware, Inc.
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>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>  On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Michael Jackson
>>>>> >>>>  <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>     wrote:
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>>  Is there a reference somewhere that says what the color table format
>>>>>> >>>>>  that paraview can import is? I think it is some sort of XML file if I
>>>>>> >>>>>  remember correctly.
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>>  Thanks
>>>>>> >>>>>  ___________________________________________________________
>>>>>> >>>>>  Mike Jackson                    Principal Software Engineer
>>>>>> >>>>>  BlueQuartz Software                            Dayton, Ohio
>>>>>> >>>>>  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net                www.bluequartz.net
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