[Paraview] Visualize density (a galaxy of stars)

[Anders Logg]

Thanks for the good suggestions! I ended up going with the point cloud
option. I'm very happy how it turned out:

http://www.math.chalmers.se/~logg/tmp/vp_torus.avi

Again, special thanks to Chris for pointing me to this option.

--
Anders


fre 26 juni 2015 kl 12:32 skrev Paluszek, Lukasz <lukasz.paluszek at airbus.com
>:

> Hello Anders,
>
> I don't know what your expectations as to how sharp the image should be
> are, but your data set is too coarse to obtain a sharper rendering. What I
> suggest is that you either refine your mesh or you resample your data onto
> a finer vti image and then do the volume rendering. I have attached a
> picture with your original galaxy and a resampled one, perhaps this is what
> you are looking for. I must admit though, that the left image looks more
> "Hubble-like" :-).
>
> Regards,
> Lukasz
>
>
>
>
>
> Łukasz Paluszek
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of Chris
> Richardson
> Sent: 26 June 2015 10:16
> To: Anders Logg
> Cc: ParaView Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Visualize density (a galaxy of stars)
>
> 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
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