Check on the advanced properties. Pass through scalars used to be an option. On Nov 19, 2013 10:26 AM, "Cook, Rich" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree -- it seems to me that it would be very good to have the > correct color applied to the isosurface using the color map for the > variable being used. This can provide information in a scene that is > relevant and important. Having to manually choose a "constant color" does > not make sense to me. Should it be purple? Grey? Arbitrary and > misleading. > -- Rich > > On Nov 19, 2013, at 8:07 AM, "Scott, W Alan" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ken/Rich, > This is actually expected behavior that I have noticed before. If we > contoured on a variable, that variable is now a constant for this surface. > Thus, it is useless. I don’t know if we still should pass it on, but we > don’t. > > Alan > > *From:* Moreland, Kenneth > *Sent:* Monday, November 18, 2013 6:40 PM > *To:* Cook, Rich > *Cc:* Scott, W Alan; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] why when contouring by density does > a color plot of density show more than one color? > > I believe Alan is right. The cell to point operation performs something > of a low pass filtering of the data, meaning that extrema get smoothed out. > It is entirely possible that is happening here. > > It is strange that you cannot color by the point density. I would > expect that to be output by the filter. > > -Ken > > Sent from my iPad so blame autocorrect. > > > On Nov 18, 2013, at 6:03 PM, "Cook, Rich" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I did notice that. It does not allow me to color by point density. I > don't think the values really vary by that much near the isosurface, but I > might be wrong. > > > On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:58 PM, "Scott, W Alan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Rich, > The vast majority of the ParaView team is crazy busy at SC. I.e. if > you don’t get an answer by next week, ping again. > > OK, thinking out loud here – you are contouring by the density at the > points (nodes), but coloring by a subtly different variable – density at > the cells (elements). Since you should have it available (coming out of > the cell to point filter), how about coloring by point density? (You can > tell by the cute cube in front of the density variable – points look like > ... um ... points.) That’s the only thing I can think of... > > Alan > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:paraview- > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Cook, Rich > *Sent:* Monday, November 18, 2013 5:52 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] why when contouring by density does a > color plot of density show more than one color? > > the attached is an image I made by creating a contour of the density > variable resulting from the CellDatatoPointData filter on some Miranda > data. I colored by density. Shouldn't it all be one color? > > <image001.jpg> > -- > ✐Richard Cook > ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 > 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA > ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605 > ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961 > --- > Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., > Integrated Computing & Communications Dept. > (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL) > > > > > > -- > ✐Richard Cook > ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 > 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA > ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605 > ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961 > --- > Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., > Integrated Computing & Communications Dept. > (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > -- > ✐Richard Cook > ✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 > 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA > ☎ (office) (925) 423-9605 > ☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961 > --- > Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., > Integrated Computing & Communications Dept. > (opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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