[Paraview] View 3D cloud of points

[Szasz Robert]

Hi Flavio,

I use the POLYDATA format to save the data and then visualize it with 
glyphs (usually spheres, but if you just need points I suppose small 
cubes would work as well). The header looks like:

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# vtk DataFile Version 2.0
Some comment
ASCII
DATASET POLYDATA
POINTS    2 float
       0.782901      0.067979      0.784717
       1.387618      0.188356      0.766874
POINT_DATA    2
VECTORS u float
      -0.089651      0.002427      0.992657
       0.098818      0.015530      0.877940

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Robert

On 2014-09-22 08:53, Flavio Sartoretto wrote:
> I must display a 3D cloud of points inside a unit cube.
> After being unsuccessful, I found
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: 	Re: [Paraview] Question about showing a few nodes/points 
> using vtk xml <http://markmail.org/message/glgj4xl3hnbty2wv> 
> permalink <http://markmail.org/message/glgj4xl3hnbty2wv>
> From: 	Moreland, Kenneth (kmo... at sandia.gov <http://sandia.gov/>)
> Date: 	Jul 6, 2010 9:22:44 am
> List: 	org.paraview.paraview
>
> By default, ParaView draws cells, not points. (You've found one 
> exception where
> selected points are drawn.) If you want to see points in general, you 
> will need
> to create "vertex" cells. One way to do that is to run your data 
> through the
> glyph filter and select the "2D Glyph" and then "Vected" glyph types.
>
> etc.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I run Delaunay 3D on my cloud. I exported into a vtk file.
>
> Reimported.
>
> Only point on cube faces are displayed, no one inside
>
>
> Any hint?
>
> Best
>
>
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