[CIG-SHORT] [CIG-MC] [Fwd: Re: Tensors in Paraview]

[Noah Fay]

this would be very useful as so far I've only used Paraview for quick- 
n-dirty plots of stress/strain/etc. because i've never figured out  
how to plot tensor quantities with it.
Noah

On May 20, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Thorsten Becker wrote:

> Dear Paraview (or MayaVi) users within the CIG community:
>
> Would it be useful to have the Paraview software implement the VTK
> Tensor format so that (strain, strain-rate, stress, moment) tensors
> could be visualized in different ways through glyphs?
>
> (Paraview is a parallel, open source, 3-D VTK visualizing tool that at
> least strikes me as quite flexible and excels particularly for
> quantitative analysis. Several codes' output (e.g. PyLith, Citcom) can
> already be viewed in Paraview.)
>
> I've sent a few emails back and forth with Berk Geveci, the main
> developer of Paraview, and he suggested that he could provide a  
> template
> for someone else (who knows a bit of VTK) to fill in the details.
>
> If this deemed useful for enough people in the lithospheric and mantle
> modeling communities, should we perhaps make this a small action item
> for one of the CIG staff?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Thorsten
>
>
> -- 
>  Thorsten W Becker                   Department of Earth Sciences
>  University of Southern California                   213.740.8365
>  Los Angeles CA 90089-0740            geodynamics.usc.edu/~becker
>
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