[Paraview] Auto Rescale to Data Range in Animation

[Hanglin Ye]

Thank you very much for the useful advice ! I now know how to turn on the
settings and I would keep in mind your opinions and be careful on the
visualization. Many thanks to you.

Best,
Hanglin

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov>
wrote:

>   My first advice is, don't rescale the color map over time. Such
> rescaling is extremely misleading, and this misses the whole point of
> visualization. If you turn on automatic rescaling in the situation you
> describe, then you'll get some blue and red coloring to some other blue and
> red coloring with absolutely no indication that the average field value
> quintupled. You are throwing out the main trend to look at residuals.
> Instead, set a range that works well over all time. You can click on the
> "Rescale to Custom Range" button to set the color range to one that works
> over all time steps (e.g. 0 to 3). You may also want to change the color
> map to have better dynamic range, and you can do that by clicking the Edit
> Color Map button.
>
>  My second advice is, seriously, don't rescale the color map over time.
> If you open the color map editor, you can find a button that can
> automatically rescale the color map to cover all time steps. It can take a
> while for large data, but that does not sound like an issue with the data
> you describe.
>
>  My third advice is, OK, fine, if you really, really, really want to do
> this (and I still don't recommend this), you can go to ParaView settings
> (Edit -> Setting on Windows and Linux, ParaView -> Preferences on Mac)
> under the General tab there is a combo box for an option labeled
> "Color/Opacity Map Range Options." By default, the color range is only
> adjusted when you Apply a visualization (or explicitly change it, of
> course). You can change that behavior to also rescale whenever the time
> step changes.
>
>  -Ken
>
>   From: Hanglin Ye <hanglinye at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 10:57 AM
> To: "paraview at paraview.org" <paraview at paraview.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Auto Rescale to Data Range in Animation
>
>   Dear all,
>
> I am trying to create an animation of a cube under certain loading
> condition with paraview. During the animation, I hope that paraview could
> automatically re-scale the the color map to the data range of each time
> step. For example, in the 1st time step data range is [0,1], in the second
> it is [2,3], I am hoping the color map could change accordingly. However I
> could not find a way to realize that. Could anyone please let me know if
> there is a way to do that?
>
>  Thank you very much.
>
>  --
>  Hanglin Ye
> Ph.D.Student MANE, RPI
>



-- 
Hanglin Ye
Ph.D.Student MANE, RPI
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/attachments/20150217/e14366d0/attachment.html>