Guillermo, vtkSplitColumnComponents assigns the names based on a guess that 3-component arrays are vectors with X, Y, Z components and 6-component arrays represent symmetric 3x3 matrices, i.e.
XX XY XZ XY YY YZ XZ YZ ZZ See ParaView/ParaViewCore/VTKExtensions/Core/vtkPVPostFilter.cxx, lines 147-174. HTH, Cory On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Guillermo Giraldo <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know how Paraview analyses scalar data from a VTK data file. > Specially, how it extracts the components of a scalar and assigns names for > color plots. For example if numComp is 3 they are named "Magnitude, X, Y > and Z2, but if numComp is 6 they are named "Magnitude, XX, YY; ZZ, XY, XZ > and YZ". How is this determined? > > Some questions I'd like to answer are: can this be done with only the VTK > library? If not, are there any other library that can do it (e.g. paraview > python)? > > Pointing to the specific code file in the git repository should be enough, > but an explanation would be great! > > Thanks in advance and greetings. > -- > Por favor confirmar recepción. > > Atte. > > Guillermo E. Giraldo Fernandez > Cel. 301 628 6730 > Colombia - Suramérica > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > -- Cory Quammen R&D Engineer Kitware, Inc.
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