ParaView Visualization Course

Comparative Viewing, XY Plot, Spreadsheet View

Dr. Jean M. Favre Chief Scientist Visualization Group Leader

Quantitative and qualitative data visualization

13/5/2009

Plot Over a Line

Position the line end-points on the extremities of the dataset User can move them back with the p stroke (two times) Plot will open a XY Plot View Use panning, zooming and reset camera buttons ValidPointMask array set to 0 if data is missing Can be done interactively, real-time with the AutoApply button Load State nacaPlot.pvsm Histogram is a vtkRectilinearGrid.
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Bart Chart
Histogram will open a Bar Chart View Use panning, zooming and reset camera buttons Play test LoadStateHistogram.pvsm Plot over Line and Histogram are of type vtkRectilinearGrid Can be saved as such, or as CSV file Can compute averages of the other data values. Use SpreadSheet View to look at CellData
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GeoPhysics example: Longitudinal average

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Spreadsheet View
Any dataset can be viewed in a Spreadsheet View Allows display of node- or cell-data Allows selection Can be exported as CSV file Display can be reduced to Show only selected elements Very smart at showing a table of arrays for multimillion data points! Demo with 400x400x400
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Comparative Viewing
Compare, sideto-side, multiple visualization pipelines Demo

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Plot Over Time

Multiple points can be tracked over time (based on their ID)
Make a selection Copy the Active Selection Apply Plotting is allowed for one point at a time.

Produces a multiblock dataset

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Summary
Plotting and Charting require RectilinearGrids (and use the X coordinate as bottom axis). Developpers should prepare data as such. Comparative viewing is to be done with caution (or low-resolution data) Idem for plot over time Both are ideal candidates for batch-mode processing

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