On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. particles rendering with input radii (Griffa, Michele) > 2. Re: Streaming ParaView (Jeff Baumes) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:04:56 +0200 > From: "Griffa, Michele" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Paraview] particles rendering with input radii > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > < > 9bc9fbff861642438f019598ebb769ad2de3163...@du-exc-mail.empa.emp-eaw.ch> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello everybody > > I'm using Paraview 3.4.0 to visualize 2D/3D geometrical models of systems > made of spherical particles. > My input file contains the information about a VTK unstructured grid. > Each node of the grid is the center of one spherical particle. > Associate to each node there is a scalar parameter representing the radius > of the particle. > > after importing the VTK unstructured grid dataset I applied to it the > sphere glyph filter. > I choose to scale each glyph according to the scalar PointData "radius" in > order to visualize different sphere according to their size. > > Considering that a value "Radius" is also defined in the "Glyph Type - > Sphere2 section of the filter's "Properties" tab, which will be the final > actual size for each spherical particle ? > > I mean, how does Paraview handle simultaneously there two pieces of > information in the case of multiple spherical glyphs with different size ? > One piece is the fixed radius, the other is the imported value for the > radius used for scaling the size of the different sphere ? > > I guess my question is strictly related to this other question: how is the > scaling performed when a 1D array of scalars is used as Scale Mode ? > > Any Tutorial or source of information about this detail ? > > How can I choose the "Radius" parameter in the "Properties" tab of the > glyph filter such that the actual radii of the rendered particles correspond > to the real values assigned to the unstructured grid ? > I also do similar things and what I used to do is - to choose glyph type sphere - Scalar radii - *set Radius as 1* (in the Sphere tab just after Center property) - select scale mode scalar - *set scale factor 1 * Then it should correspond to real values... Hope other would correct me if I am being wrong here Sreejith
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