Thanks a lot Sven, I could generate vector plots. Still trying to find a way to do 3D contour plots for my scattered points. As you said I need to have a mesh and to interpolate my scalar value to nodes of that mesh. Does anyone have an idea to do that?
Best, Nima. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Sven Buijssen <[email protected] > wrote: > Nima, > > Your first question has been discussed last month on this list, have a look > at > http://markmail.org/message/36223zg4uleibiyj. David found the time to put > the > question in FAQ style into the ParaView wiki. So, you can also look at > > http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Display_points_and_normals_from_a_plain_text_(x_y_z_nx_ny_nz)_file<http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Display_points_and_normals_from_a_plain_text_%28x_y_z_nx_ny_nz%29_file> > > I haven't faced the problem yet you describe in your second question. I'm > guessing you'll have to import your scattered data into ParaView (e.g. as > CSV > data) and somehow come up with a regular grid in ParaView. This might be > possible using a Programmable Source or Sources - Data Object Generator, > but I'm > not sure of that. Maybe someone else can point this out. Once you have a > regular > grid, use the Resample with Dataset filter to interpolate your point data > set(s) > to the regular grid and apply the Contour filter. > > Hope this helps. > > Sven > > > Nima Emadi wrote, On 11/28/2009 12:01 PM: > > Dear all, > > I would like to generate 3D vector plots from a set of scattered data in > > space (an ASCII file with x,y,z,u,v,w). I guess this should be rather > > simple, but later on I want to generate 3D contour plots out of my data > > (e.g. having contours based on the value of u^2+v^2+w^2 at each point). > > Since I just have the value on scattered points in space, making those > > contours will probably require extrapolation of my data to nodes of a > > (regular) mesh. My question is that, how can I do those plots? with > > which format should I import my data? Is paraview able to make contour > > plots with scattered data points in 3D? > > > > Thanks, > > Nima > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >
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