Hi Simon,

You can use the Python calculator:

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Python_Calculator

You need an expression like:

area(inputs[0])

or

volume(inputs[0])

Be careful, area and volume are not super accurate for 2nd order or higher
cells currently.

-berk



On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US) <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I would like to color the data based on the size of the mesh cell. Is there
> away to do it in ParaView? In the coloring pull down selection, I can only
> find the variables in the dataset. If I have to compute the size of the
> mesh
> cell to create a new variable, how would it be done?
>
> Thanks
> -simon
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