[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Material Interface Filter

[Scott, W Alan]

Andy,
Wouldn't the upcoming volume filter calculate the volume of fragments coming from the Connectivity filter?

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cory Quammen [mailto:cory.quammen at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 9:29 PM
> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> Cc: Bauer, Andy (External Contacts) <andy.bauer at kitware.com>;
> paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Material Interface Filter
> 
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:42 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Andy!  Although I will take a round about method, I would love
> > a real solution.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cory?  Thoughts?
> >
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Andy Bauer [mailto:andy.bauer at kitware.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 9:24 AM
> > To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>; Quammen, Cory (External
> > Contacts) <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
> > Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview] Material Interface Filter
> >
> >
> >
> > The best way I can think of is to then use the threshold filter to
> > isolate each of the pieces and then use the cell size filter on each
> > piece. This would be fairly easy to automate in a Python script to
> > just print out the values.
> >
> > Alternatively, I don't see a reason why the Connectivity filter
> > couldn't have an option added to output a field data array with the
> > summed sizes of each piece. Since Cory just made the connectivity
> > filter work correctly in parallel it would surprise me that he may be
> > familiar enough with the code to do the change in a couple of hours.
> 
> I'm hesitant to add an option in the Connectivity filter to do this.
> Instead, I can imagine uses for a volume computation for surfaces/volumes
> labeled by a RegionId that isn't necessarily assigned as a function of
> connectivity. Instead, I would prefer to create a separate filter that computes
> volumes for each RegionId in the input dataset. You would feed the output
> of the Connectivity filter to this new filter and get the volume-per-region
> information you want.
> 
> Cory
> 
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have a user that wants to use the equivalent of the Material
> > Interface Filter on VTK files.  Is there a way to do this?  I did find
> > the Connectivity filter, that gets me half way.  I then want to find
> > the mass of these individual fragments.
> >
> >
> >
> > To test, I used Wavelet, the Clip by Sphere, then made the Radius 15,
> > then ran the connectivity filter.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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