[Paraview] Cell to point, and ghost cells

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Sounds to me like the issue is the lack of ghost cells at processor boundaries. If the data is unstructured you can run the D3 filter. 

-Ken

Sent from my iPad so blame autocorrect.

> On May 20, 2014, at 6:56 AM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> If it's a multiblock dataset, you would want to apply "Merge Blocks"
> before CellToPoint.
> 
>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Gena Bug <archaerolog at mail.ru> wrote:
>> Hi, Scott,
>> 
>> Have you tried to use CleantoGrid first, before CelltoPoint?
>> 
>> 
>>> On 20.05.2014 01:42, Scott, W Alan wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a user that is getting visual artifacts between simulation
>>> processor boundaries when using cell to point.  My user is reading two files
>>> into ParaView.  He then runs cells to point.  He then colors by a former
>>> cell variable, which is now a point variable.  He is seeing artifacts at the
>>> boundaries of the two files.   I am only on one processor for ParaView.
>>> 
>>> These artifacts are being created because we don't have ghost cells around
>>> each file's data.  I tried turning piece invariant on in the cell to point
>>> filter, but it does nothing.
>>> 
>>> So, my questions - is this a feature or a bug?  Do we want to fix it?  How
>>> hard is it to fix?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Alan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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