No need to click advanced, it is the Compute Scalars control you want. David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:20 PM, David E DeMarle <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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