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<div>I noticed activity a year ago in terms of linking BGL and VTK, but I have never seen examples of how to use it. Maybe I'll give the polydata thing a try.</div>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Jacques Papper<br><<a href="mailto:jacques.papper@gmail.com">jacques.papper@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have a 100 million point connected graph (No cell information - only<br>
> points and edges and boundaries defined by certain points and edges) that I<br>> would like to visualize. I would like to be able to load it in parallel and<br>> post-process it in parallel. I would like to do things like streamlines /<br>
> surface contours on the boundaries of the graph etc... Also I would like it<br>> to have groups (or blocks) for the different surfaces in the graph. Is there<br>> any way of doing this with ParaView ? Is there a certain class / algorithm<br>
> that can accomodate this type of data structure ?<br><br></div></div>Sandia National Labs and Kitware are in the midst of making it<br>possible to store and process very large graphs in distributed memory<br>using vtkGraph and the Parallel Boost Graph Library. Some of this is<br>
currently in VTK, but it is not yet incorporated into ParaView. Your<br>other choice which may work for you is to use vtkPolyData with line<br>cells, since some of the operations you are talking about exist in<br>ParaView for polygonal geometry, although I don't know the exact<br>
sequence of filters you would need for your use case. ParaView also<br>has the notion of multi-block data sets which can group assoicated<br>data sets into one object.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Jeff<br></font></blockquote>
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