Hi Catalyst developers,

Our team has recently succeeded in integrating Catalyst into our code (which 
would not have been possible without all of your help). Now that the details of 
getting our data into the VTK format via the adaptor are settled, we are 
running into new questions about how to effectively utilize Catalyst within our 
code.

One question that I have about Catalyst is: Say my code supports 100 optional 
variables, and I don’t really want to load every single one of those variables 
into memory if the user is just asking for contours of pressure and velocity. 
Is there a way to know what variables are in play within the Catalyst Python 
scripts that were passed to the code? In other words, is there a way to query 
what variables will be requested by a set of Catalyst scripts before we take 
our first timestep so that we can set up some rules for loading only the 
requested variables into the VTK format?

I also noticed that the Catalyst export state option in ParaView 5.1 appears to 
be somewhat limited in that it requires me to export either 1.) A live image, 
2.) An animation, or 3.) A static screenshot of the current display.  What if I 
created a pipeline that has a final result of a histogram? Is exporting that 
histogram data not supported currently in the Catalyst export state option? 
What about just saving the data to *vtu format without exporting any images? I 
could put a script together to do this, but I’m thinking about what a user 
would do if they weren’t well versed in the ParaView python scripting language.


Thank you,
Chris Neal

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