Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Jérôme
Hi, After full updates on 2 computers (personal and office) both running fedora 12, the problem persists... on one of them only! The sadness is that the personal one is concerned, so I cannot debug efficiently. The point is that I didn't perform a comprehensive clean on my built tree. This is

[Paraview] PV 3.6.2 and VirtualGL

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Melis
Hi, I'm experimenting with running paraview on a remote visualization server, using VirtualGL. This package basically lets you run an OpenGL application as you normally would, but intercepts the swapbuffer events to read back the framebuffer, which then gets JPEG compressed and sent to a client

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Jackson
I have tried clean builds on ParaView CVS and ParaView 3.6.2 OS X with Qt versions 4.5.3 and Qt 4.6.2 both carbon and Cocoa and none of that alleviates the problem. Not even the precompiled binary from Kitware's web site works correctly. It does work perfectly fine on windows though. I

Re: [Paraview] PV 3.6.2 and VirtualGL

2010-03-03 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
That's very interesting. You are seeing the issue only with glyph not with any other filter? I am wondering if you can show two 3D geometries at the same time and does that work? On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Paul Melis paul.me...@sara.nl wrote: Hi, I'm experimenting with running paraview on

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Eric E. Monson
Mike, is it possible that it's a problem related to OS X 10.5? I know Jérôme is having some trouble with Fedora, but I can't reproduce the issue on Snow Leopard or Ubuntu (both x86_64 builds). Which architecture are you building PV and Qt for? -Eric On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Michael Jackson

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Mike, but the cell data shows up correctly on the information tab, right? So the cell data is being loaded, and even reported to ParaView. It's hard to imagine why it would be doing what it's doing, esp. with the precompiled binaries on Mac, since they work fine for me, on my Mac 10.6 :). It

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Jackson
Do you want my data file? Mike J. On 3/3/2010 9:28 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Mike, but the cell data shows up correctly on the information tab, right? So the cell data is being loaded, and even reported to ParaView. It's hard to imagine why it would be doing what it's doing, esp. with the

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Jackson
Might be. I'll have to borrow a Snow Leopard machine to test it out. I am building 32 bit ParaView against a 32/64 Qt 4.6.x Cocoa and a 32 bit Qt 4.6.2 Carbon. All on OS X 10.5.8. And, again, the precompiled binaries from Kitware will reproduce for me. This is also on a MacPro with ATI 4870

[Paraview] ParaView and Python: Position of a slice and pressing the Rescale to Data Range-Button

2010-03-03 Thread Stefan Kroboth
Hi! I'm new to ParaView and Python but I need to automate a workflow as part of my bachelor thesis. I already found out a lot of the things I need by myself. But, there are some things I couldn't find out. Is there an option to automatically render a slice when it is moved? I basically don't

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Jackson
I just tried on a 10.6.2 MacBook with Intel graphics and the Cell Data showed up just fine. So it does work on 10.6 but just not 10.5. Go figure. All my clients are on 10.5 so I am not sure what to do now. Don't really know enough about OpenGL (is my guess) capabilities or how to figure out

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Mmm..not sure if that'd help, since you said you can reproduce the issue with GenerateIds filter as well, right? Utkarsh On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Michael Jackson mike.jack...@bluequartz.net wrote: Do you want my data file? Mike J. On 3/3/2010 9:28 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Mike,

Re: [Paraview] ParaView and Python: Position of a slice and pressing the Rescale to Data Range-Button

2010-03-03 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Is there an option to automatically render a slice when it is moved? I basically don't want to press the Apply-button whenever the slice is moved. If this isn't possible, how do i press the Apply-button with python? Yes, go to Edit | Settings. There's a check box for Auto Accept on the

Re: [Paraview] PV 3.6.2 and VirtualGL

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Melis
Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: That's very interesting. You are seeing the issue only with glyph not with any other filter? - On a velocity field I had lying around, using the Stream Tracer displays streamlines. Trying glyphs on the same set fails. Switching to the slice representation works. -

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Jérôme
By my side, yes: SphereSource - GenerateIds. You are right: Information tab shows the celldata and pointdata array, whereas Color by has only point. Jerome 2010/3/3 Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com Mmm..not sure if that'd help, since you said you can reproduce the issue with

Re: [Paraview] PV 3.6.2 and VirtualGL

2010-03-03 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Do you mean adding a Glyph filter twice, one set to e.g. Spheres, the other to 2D vertex? If so, then this only shows the 2D vertices I meant simply try creating two sphere sources (with different centers). Do both of them show up correctly? Utkarsh

[Paraview] errors when trying to connect to the pvserver

2010-03-03 Thread Vishwa
Hi, I have had a terrible time compiling paraview to use the pvsever on our cluster. Not have privileges made it a little harder as I had to install a local mesa library, cmake, qt4. We finally compiled it and it ran on the head node and we could see the main screen.. After a few time of trying,

Re: [Paraview] PV 3.6.2 and VirtualGL

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Melis
Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: Do you mean adding a Glyph filter twice, one set to e.g. Spheres, the other to 2D vertex? If so, then this only shows the 2D vertices I meant simply try creating two sphere sources (with different centers). Do both of them show up correctly? Yes, Paul

Re: [Paraview] ParaView and Python: Position of a slice and pressing the Rescale to Data Range-Button

2010-03-03 Thread pat marion
I think you are trying to set the origin of the slice plane from python? It would be sliceFilter.SliceType.Origin = [0, 0, 0]. Try entering these lines in the python console for a demo: Sphere() s = Slice() Show() for i in range(100): s.SliceType.Origin=[-0.5 + i*0.01, 0,0] Render() Note

Re: [Paraview] Paraview in Cave (Integration with VRJuggler)

2010-03-03 Thread Rick Angelini
The cow has a great view of the action! 8-) nikhil shetty wrote: Hi Berk, As promised, I am sending the first snapshots of Paraview/VRJuggler Integration running on the stereo projected wall here in Create Lab blockedhttp://create.louisiana.edu/. * The wall is two sided rear

Re: [Paraview] [Paraview-developers] The Quest for Data

2010-03-03 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Eric, I've committed a fix to allow you to interact with the 3D windows but nothing else while the dialog is open. There are still some kinks esp. with the labels if you change the active view. I am going to iron those out as well, but feel free to give it a try. Utkarsh On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Jackson
I just fire up the 3.6.2 binary from Kitware on OS X 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro with nVidea 8600M graphics card and the information tab is identical to your image BUT my Color By drop down only shows Solid Color, Ids, Normals, all of which are Point Data and NOT Cell Data. So not really sure

Re: [Paraview] [Paraview-developers] The Quest for Data

2010-03-03 Thread Eric E. Monson
I think that's a great fix, Utkarsh! It seems much more useful now since sometimes the selections are obscured by other objects and this allows me to go back and forth between the 3D window and the query dialog without having to re-enter the info. Thanks a lot! -Eric On Mar 3, 2010, at

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Eric E. Monson
I just tried the 3.6.2 binary on a MacBook booted off an old 10.5.7 usb drive backup and all of the Color By entries showed up just fine. The MacBook has the GMA 950 on-board graphics chipset. The Mac Pro I used before has the NVidia GeForce 8800 GT card. If you can think of any other specs

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Jackson
Well. I am beginning to think it is something with my system. I just tried the PV 3.6.1 on an OS X 10.4.11 ppc machine and everything works fine. I tried the PV 3.6.1 Intel version on my MacBook Pro running 10.5.8 and the same sequence did NOT work, ie, Cell Centered data was NOT shown in the

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Jackson
Drum roll please... Corrupt set of paraview preferences. After installing 10.5.8 clean from my installation disks everything worked as it was supposed to. So that means the only difference is between the 2 user environments. Preferences is the first to check. Looked in my home

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Jérôme
Fine! I renamed my ~/.config/ParaView/ParaView3.7.0.ini to ParaView3.7.0.ini.old. ParaView creates a new config file, and the cell arrays are back! Thanks a lot! For curiosity, I will remove line after line to find the bugging one. Jerome 2010/3/3 Michael Jackson mike.jack...@bluequartz.net

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Jérôme
If someone is going further on that .ini corruption, I just noted something maybe useful. The problem is not that CellArray are not listed in the Color by combo box: If you try with PointSource - GenerateIds instead of SphereSource - GenerateIds then the CellArray is visible. As the sphere

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
Oh wow...that's interesting. I won't mind looking at the ini out of curiosity. Utkarsh On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Michael Jackson mike.jack...@bluequartz.net wrote: Drum roll please... Corrupt set of paraview preferences. After installing 10.5.8 clean from my installation disks

Re: [Paraview] Sharing GPUs Amongst Processes

2010-03-03 Thread Ricardo Reis
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote: Question : Supposing you have no Xserver running but you wish to take advantage of hardware acceleration. Is it possible to create an offscreen buffer for each pvserver without the X server. We'd like to share one GPU between 4 cores, but

Re: [Paraview] Fwd: Re: Name query from multi-block data in Python

2010-03-03 Thread bastil2...@yahoo.de
Thanks sounds exactly what I was looking for. However I don't really know how to use it: source=GetActiveSource() iter=servermanager.vtkPVCompositeDataInformationIteratior() dir(iter) - shows no GetCurrentName() Thanks Bastian Original-Nachricht Betreff: Re:

[Paraview] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Problems with Paraview 3.7-dev: Save screenshot, ExtractBlock in Python

2010-03-03 Thread bastil2...@yahoo.de
Some corrections: I do Show(eb) not eb.Show() in my script. Python-Interface is not working in my build directory (do not know why) so I always have to use installed version. I ran it under gdb: gdb bin/paraview GNU gdb 6.6 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free

Re: [Paraview] Paraview in Cave (Integration with VRJuggler)

2010-03-03 Thread Simon Su
Nikhil, Please let me know when you are ready to put up the project. Thanks, Simon On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:08 AM, nikhil shetty nikhil.j.she...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Berk, As promised, I am sending the first snapshots of Paraview/VRJuggler Integration running on the stereo projected wall

Re: [Paraview] Paraview in Cave (Integration with VRJuggler)

2010-03-03 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
The cow says, Moo. [Chuckle] Seriously, though, this is cool and it's good to see in ParaView. Thanks for adding this. Viva la open source. -Ken On 3/3/10 2:08 AM, nikhil shetty nikhil.j.she...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Berk, As promised, I am sending the first snapshots of Paraview/VRJuggler

Re: [Paraview] errors when trying to connect to the pvserver

2010-03-03 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
Yes, you will have to set the client host to the machine your client is actually on, olivegarden. If you are launching the ssh command from the GUI, I believe you can use the special string %PV_CLIENT_HOST% and it will be replaced with your clients hostname. -Ken On 3/3/10 11:13 AM, Vishwa

Re: [Paraview] How to color by Cell Data

2010-03-03 Thread Jérôme
Utkarsh, I will send you mine this -french- evening (I don't have it here). It could be interesting to compare with the Mike's bad one. Jerome 2010/3/3 Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com Oh wow...that's interesting. I won't mind looking at the ini out of curiosity. Utkarsh On

Re: [Paraview] Sharing GPUs Amongst Processes

2010-03-03 Thread Biddiscombe, John A.
Ricardo, Thanks for the useful info. We may opt to start an X server at bootup and then allow anyone connected to use the display. We wanted to avoid the xserver because on our existing system, slurm scripts are used to allocate a node, the script starts an X server for the user to run GL