[Paraview] Visualize density (a galaxy of stars)

[Chris Richardson]

On 26/06/2015 08:36, Anders Logg wrote:
> Sure!
> 
> http://www.math.chalmers.se/~logg/tmp/torus.vtu.gz [6]
> 
> Ideally I would like to visualize this as a glowing torus-shaped
> galaxy in empty space.
> 
> PS: A friend tipped me to visualize the data as a point cloud instead
> so I'm currently experimenting with sampling the density data to form
> a point cloud (outside of ParaView). This might be a better
> alternative than visualizing the density directly.
> 

You could also try contouring it at different levels, and turning 
opacity to ~0.5 or so.

Chris