[vtkusers] Pieces, ghost levels, and vtkMultiGroupDataSet

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at gmail.com
Wed May 17 16:17:58 EDT 2006


There isn't. I guess I am the tutorial. The short answer is that the
composite data pipeline ignores the ghost level requests at the moment.
It is a "to do" item.

On 5/12/06, John Norris <jnorris at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a paper or tutorial or something that explains exactly how
> dataset pieces and ghost levels work, particularly with composite
> datasets?
>
> I'm visualizing a very large mesh, and the data is already segmented
> into blocks, complete with ghost data.  I want to do all of the
> processing (contours, glyphs, etc) on each piece individually,
> preferably in parallel (or at least concurrently), taking full advantage
> of the available ghost data.  The whole grid is unstructured, but the
> individual pieces may be unstructured, structured, rectilinear, or even
> uniform.
>
> Right now I don't know enough about how it's supposed to work to ask
> intelligent questions.
>
> Thanks,
> John
> --
> John Norris
> Research Programmer
> Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
> http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/jnorris
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