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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">thanks Burlen,<br>
-simon<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF424794"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Burlen Loring [burlen.loring@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 16, 2014 6:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Burlen Loring; Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US); paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] Accessing a specific variable in Python Programmable Filter<br>
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<div>correction, Dave D. just pointed out to me that since PV 4.0 the shallow copy is no longer needed because of the VTK 6.0 pipeline improvements.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/16/2014 02:07 PM, Burlen Loring wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">By the way, the example following that is buggy as well, when you apply an internal filter you first need to shallow copy the input.
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I fixed both of these, although I think these examples(ones in Examples section) are not great ones in the first place and don't add much to the already pretty comprehensive examples preceding them, I would vote to remove them. However, I'll leave this up
to the real pv developers....<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/16/2014 01:43 PM, Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US) wrote:<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Thanks Burlen<br>
-simon<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 16, 2014 4:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Su, Simon M CTR USARMY ARL (US); <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" target="_blank">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] Accessing a specific variable in Python Programmable Filter<br>
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<pre class="de1"><span class="kw2">input</span> = <span class="kw2">self</span>.<span class="me1">GetPolyDataInput</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
output = <span class="kw2">self</span>.<span class="me1">GetPolyDataOutput</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
colors = vtk.<span class="me1">vtkUnsignedCharArray</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
colors.<span class="me1">SetNumberOfComponents</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="nu0">3</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
colors.<span class="me1">SetName</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="st0">"Colors"</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
numPoints = <span class="kw2">input</span>.<span class="me1">GetNumberOfPoints</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span>
<span class="kw1">for</span> i <span class="kw1">in</span> <span class="kw2">range</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="nu0">0</span>, numPoints<span class="br0">)</span>:
colors.<span class="me1">InsertNextTuple3</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="nu0">255</span>,<span class="nu0">0</span>,<span class="nu0">0</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
output=<span class="kw2">input</span>
output.<span class="me1">GetPointData</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span>.<span class="me1">AddArray</span><span class="br0">(</span>colors<span class="br0">)</span></pre>
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Not sure how this got on the wiki but this is an example of what *not* to do!!<br>
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In a VTK filter one's never supposed to modify the input. <br>
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output.<span class="me1">GetPointData</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span>.<span class="me1">AddArray</span><span class="br0">(</span>colors<span class="br0">)</span></pre>
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This is exactly what's done here. Of course you're not going to find the array in the filter's output if you're adding it to the input!<br>
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This code can be fixed by removing the output=input line. With that change you should be able to see the array in downstream filters. note, in python 2 range actually generates a list with all the values in it, while xrange creates an iterator which is far
more efficient. To actually use the colors you'll also have to uncheck the map scalars check box in the display properties.<br>
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output = self.GetPolyDataOutput();</p>
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colors = vtk.vtkUnsignedCharArray();</p>
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colors.SetNumberOfComponents(3);</p>
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colors.SetName("Colors");</p>
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numPoints = input.GetNumberOfPoints()</p>
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for i in xrange(0, numPoints):</p>
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colors.InsertNextTuple3(0,255,0);</p>
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output.GetPointData().AddArray(colors)</p>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Hello,<br>
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After staring at <a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Python_Programmable_Filter" target="_blank">
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Python_Programmable_Filter</a> for a while, the way to access the data for a specific variable name still eludes me. This is the python code from the wiki on Add the Colors variable to a PolyData<br>
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<pre class="de1"><span class="kw2">input</span> = <span class="kw2">self</span>.<span class="me1">GetPolyDataInput</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
output = <span class="kw2">self</span>.<span class="me1">GetPolyDataOutput</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
colors = vtk.<span class="me1">vtkUnsignedCharArray</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
colors.<span class="me1">SetNumberOfComponents</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="nu0">3</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
colors.<span class="me1">SetName</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="st0">"Colors"</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
numPoints = <span class="kw2">input</span>.<span class="me1">GetNumberOfPoints</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span>
<span class="kw1">for</span> i <span class="kw1">in</span> <span class="kw2">range</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="nu0">0</span>, numPoints<span class="br0">)</span>:
colors.<span class="me1">InsertNextTuple3</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="nu0">255</span>,<span class="nu0">0</span>,<span class="nu0">0</span><span class="br0">)</span><span class="sy0">;</span>
output=<span class="kw2">input</span>
output.<span class="me1">GetPointData</span><span class="br0">(</span><span class="br0">)</span>.<span class="me1">AddArray</span><span class="br0">(</span>colors<span class="br0">)</span></pre>
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How do I from the next filter, access the variable name "Colors" that I created? <br>
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Any help is much appreciated. <br>
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thanks<br>
-simon<br>
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