[Paraview] Plugin for rendering vtkGraph in ParaView

[WangWentao]

Hi, Seb

It's very kind of you to share the code, which will make me understand Paraview much better.

There is little information about cusomizing Paraview, so a workable example will be very useful.

Thanks again.


在 2013-5-18，3:12，Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> 写道：

> Hi,
> 
> We are currently working in bringing that VTK renderer + representation into ParaView. Although, that work won't be available inside ParaView soon as more effort need to be done toward a proper integration.
> Although, if you are willing to go further on that matter, I can share that piece of code that allow rendering within the python context of ParaView.
> 
> Seb
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:09 PM, WangWentao <wwthunan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, all.
> 
> I hope to render vtkGraph in ParaView, which is available in VTK. The related classes are vtkGraphLayoutView, vtkRenderedGraphRepresentation. There is also a source class: vtkRandomGraphSource.
> 
> My plan is to realize a customized view for vtkGraph. As an experiment, there are at least 3 things to to:
> 1. a source for vtkGraph, which is the easiest part. Just load a xml file wrapping vtkRandomGraphSource.
> 2. a view. May be a subclass of vtkPVRenderView, with its RenderView replaced by vtkGraphLayoutView. I have tried that, and the view shows in MainWindow, but I don't know if it really works.
> 3. a representation. vtkGraphLayoutView uses vtkRenderedGraphRepresentation by default. But I don't know how to use this representation class in ParaView, only find that every representation class in  Paraview is derived from vtkPVDataRepresentation.
> 
> I am trying to write a custumized grapg view according to my plan. Before everything is done, I have to figure out how view and representaion work in Paraview.
> 
> My questions are:
> 1. Does my plan works? Is there any aspect I have ignored?
> 2. How to use a vtk representation class in Paraview?
> 3. What is the best way to visualize graph in Paraview?
> 
> Any advices will be appreciated!
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