Thank you very much for the useful advice ! I now know how to turn on the settings and I would keep in mind your opinions and be careful on the visualization. Many thanks to you.
Best, Hanglin On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <[email protected]> wrote: > My first advice is, don't rescale the color map over time. Such > rescaling is extremely misleading, and this misses the whole point of > visualization. If you turn on automatic rescaling in the situation you > describe, then you'll get some blue and red coloring to some other blue and > red coloring with absolutely no indication that the average field value > quintupled. You are throwing out the main trend to look at residuals. > Instead, set a range that works well over all time. You can click on the > "Rescale to Custom Range" button to set the color range to one that works > over all time steps (e.g. 0 to 3). You may also want to change the color > map to have better dynamic range, and you can do that by clicking the Edit > Color Map button. > > My second advice is, seriously, don't rescale the color map over time. > If you open the color map editor, you can find a button that can > automatically rescale the color map to cover all time steps. It can take a > while for large data, but that does not sound like an issue with the data > you describe. > > My third advice is, OK, fine, if you really, really, really want to do > this (and I still don't recommend this), you can go to ParaView settings > (Edit -> Setting on Windows and Linux, ParaView -> Preferences on Mac) > under the General tab there is a combo box for an option labeled > "Color/Opacity Map Range Options." By default, the color range is only > adjusted when you Apply a visualization (or explicitly change it, of > course). You can change that behavior to also rescale whenever the time > step changes. > > -Ken > > From: Hanglin Ye <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 10:57 AM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Auto Rescale to Data Range in Animation > > Dear all, > > I am trying to create an animation of a cube under certain loading > condition with paraview. During the animation, I hope that paraview could > automatically re-scale the the color map to the data range of each time > step. For example, in the 1st time step data range is [0,1], in the second > it is [2,3], I am hoping the color map could change accordingly. However I > could not find a way to realize that. Could anyone please let me know if > there is a way to do that? > > Thank you very much. > > -- > Hanglin Ye > Ph.D.Student MANE, RPI > -- Hanglin Ye Ph.D.Student MANE, RPI
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