[Paraview] Blog: matplotlib View coming in ParaView 4.1

[Marco Nawijn]

Dear Cory,

I am seriously impressed! I cannot wait to check it out and play around
with it.

Now I have only two wishes left :). For those who are interested:
  1. I would like to be able to dynamically update (e.g. add timestep)
Paraview without
      blocking the user interface. Use-case for me is to allow immediate
correlation between
      simulations and physical tests (aerospace certification testing)
  2. More feature rich annotation of points and cells. Same reason as
above. I would for example


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>wrote:

> Auré Lien,
>
> Thanks for the feedback,
>
> The Python View could certainly consume output from a
> ProgrammableFilter. Did you have another way in mind to use matplotlib
> from within a programmable filter? I don't think anything would stop
> you from doing so, but to have any matplotlib plots show up in a
> ParaView window, you would need to have your matplotlib code in the
> Python View script.
>
> You can access the Python View from the Python shell, but it might be
> a little awkward. You would have to set the script in the Python View
> as a string, e.g.
>
> >>> view =paraview.simple.CreateView("PythonView")
> >>> view.Script = """
> ... def setup_data(view):
> ...   print "setup_data"
> ...
> ... def render(view, figure):
> ...   print "render"
> ... """
>
> You could imagine loading a matplotlib script this way, perhaps.
>
> Best,
> Cory
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Aurélien Marsan <aur.marsan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Wow ! So great ! A very popular python feature that was missing in
> Paraview.
> >
> > Juste one question : will matplotlib also be directly accessible from a
> > ProgrammableFilter or from the python console ?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > A. Marsan
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