[Paraview] Accessing window pixel data from python

[Richard Townsend]

I’d like to read the image rendered by ParaView.

cheers,

Rich

On Jan 20, 2014, at 9:31 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> I am not sure I understand what you're trying to do. Do you want to
> access the pixel buffer to "read" the image rendered by ParaView or
> "write" to the image rendered in ParaView?
> 
> 
> Utkarsh
> 
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Richard Townsend
> <townsend at astro.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> Hi folks —
>> 
>> Newbie here. I’m wondering whether it’s possible to access the pixel buffer of a render window from within Python. I’m using Python to generate a set of plots which contain paraview-rendered images. Rather than writing the images to disk using WriteImage, and then reading them back in to create the plots using matplotlib, I’d like to access the render window pixel buffer directly. Is this possible?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Rich
>> 
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