[Paraview] Blog: matplotlib View coming in ParaView 4.1

[Marco Nawijn]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the info! I will check it as soon as I am back at the office.
Will let you know if it works for me.

Kind regards,

Marco





On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> I recently added the ability to iterate through time steps in the
> programmable filter. It's not a feature which we are widely promoting due
> to its complexity though. I've attached a state file and a data file that
> should demonstrate it. Note that this has been added recently so it may
> only work with the PV4.1 release candidate and later.
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Marco Nawijn <nawijn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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