If you want to draw a line from point positions at two subsequent time steps, 
you can use the Temporal Particles To Pathlines filter, which traces a line 
behind particles as they move through space and time. When you use this filter 
for your purposes, set Mask Points to 1 and Max Track Length to 2. (You can 
increase Max Track Length to lengthen the line to connect more than 2 
timesteps.) Note that you will not see any lines until you step time.

The Temporal Particles to Pathlines filter actually has two outputs. The first, 
named Pathlines, contains the lines. The second, named Particles, is a point at 
the end position of the line. You can add a glyph to this output to create 
arrow-like filters.

-Ken

From: ParaView [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dorian 
Pustina
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 8:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Compute line between coordinates

Hello everyone,

I am working on visualizing some brain imaging data. I have a bunch of points 
in 3D space, which have two sets of coordinates: x1/y1/z1 and x2/y2/z2. All I 
need is to show arrow glyphs starting from the first coordinate and ending to 
the second coordinate. I currently import the data as csv. I tried using the 
time series option, and I can loop through the two time points, but can't find 
how to model a line or an arrow for each point between the two times. I also 
tried to compute what is called "velocity fields", that is a set of 3 scalar 
factors that if multiplied with the original coordinates would yield the second 
coordinate (using Calculator):
iHat*X snapped+jHat*Y snapped+kHat*Z snapped

Still, I don't get reasonable results. The problem looks trivial but I couldn't 
find any solution online after hours of search. It is not even clear to me what 
does the above formula do exactly.

Can someone help if this is possible?

Dorian
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