Hi all! I had a look on the wiki, and indeed, one can find information at the page you pointed me: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Enabling_a_filter_in_VTK but also at that one: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ExtendingParaView#Enable_Existing_VTK_Class
Very interesting information are given, however, I think I am missing something. Just to try out, I copy/past the given Server Manager Configuration file in a xml, naming it "vtkCellDerivatives.xml". I loaded it as it is indicated (using the *Plugins Manager*), as shown on the following picture. (By the way, I'm surprised that there is no confirmation of the correct loading. It may be intersting to have two buttons: - "select" having thefunctionality of the current "load" one: selection of an XML file - "load" or "apply" confirming the selection of the XL file and may achieveing some control: 2008/12/9 David E DeMarle <[email protected]> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Pierre JUILLARD > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi ParaView user, > > > > > > Having stress tensor in VTK file, I would like to visualize them. > > > > Different solutions may exist: > > > > > > 1). For instance, evaluate the principal components (vectors) from stress > > tensor and use the 'stream tracer' filter to visualize each principal > > component individually. However, in the 'Calculator' filter, I see > neither > > 'extract principal component' function, nor the possibility to interact > with > > tensor at all: only the access to scalars and vectors is allowed. > > Could you confirm me this? > > > > > > 2). Another actually much more interesting way would be to use the > > Hyperstreamline method available in the VTK library > > (http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/html/a00565.html). Nonetheless, I > don't > > see the equivalent filter in ParaView. > > Is there a way to 'activate' it simply in ParaView? > > Or should an external filter be developped (based on the existing VTK > > class)? > > > > > > I thank youfor your help! > > Regards > > > > > > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > > ParaView mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > > > > > > I recommend solution 2. > See > http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo#Enabling_a_filter_in_VTK > > -- > David E DeMarle > Kitware, Inc. > R&D Engineer > 28 Corporate Drive > Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 >
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