[Paraview] cell data on polygonal cells

[Charles Law]

Mattijs,

This is a bug.  I confirmed that ParaView does not color by vector cell 
attributes properly.  You can get around this by using the array calculator 
to generate a one component cell attribute which will color properly.

Charles.


At 06:17 PM 6/21/2004 +0100, Mattijs Janssens wrote:
>I have got legacy VTK files with point and cell data on polygons. In 1.4.2 
>I can visualize both point and cell data ok but if I use the cvs version 
>(from 16/6/4) I cannot visualize the cell data (point data is ok).
>
>Attached is a small test file which should have the same behaviour. Look 
>at field 'p' which should be both in point and in cell format.
>
>(my cvs version was compiled with gl2ps support switched on but I don't 
>expect that to mess up the standard rendering)
>
>Anyone any ideas? Known 'feature'?
>
>Regards,
>
>Mattijs
>
>
># vtk DataFile Version 2.0
>movingWall
>ASCII
>DATASET POLYDATA
>POINTS 42 float
>0 0.1 0 0.005 0.1 0 0.01 0.1 0 0.015 0.1
>0 0.02 0.1 0 0.025 0.1 0 0.03 0.1 0
>0.035 0.1 0 0.04 0.1 0 0.045 0.1 0 0.05
>0.1 0 0.055 0.1 0 0.06 0.1 0 0.065 0.1
>0 0.07 0.1 0 0.075 0.1 0 0.08 0.1 0
>0.085 0.1 0 0.09 0.1 0 0.095 0.1 0 0.1
>0.1 0 0 0.1 0.01 0.005 0.1 0.01 0.01 0.1
>0.01 0.015 0.1 0.01 0.02 0.1 0.01 0.025 0.1 0.01
>0.03 0.1 0.01 0.035 0.1 0.01 0.04 0.1 0.01 0.045
>0.1 0.01 0.05 0.1 0.01 0.055 0.1 0.01 0.06 0.1
>0.01 0.065 0.1 0.01 0.07 0.1 0.01 0.075 0.1 0.01
>0.08 0.1 0.01 0.085 0.1 0.01 0.09 0.1 0.01 0.095
>0.1 0.01 0.1 0.1 0.01
>POLYGONS 20 100
>4 0 21 22 1 4 1 22 23 2 4
>2 23 24 3 4 3 24 25 4 4
>4 25 26 5 4 5 26 27 6 4
>6 27 28 7 4 7 28 29 8 4
>8 29 30 9 4 9 30 31 10 4
>10 31 32 11 4 11 32 33 12 4
>12 33 34 13 4 13 34 35 14 4
>14 35 36 15 4 15 36 37 16 4
>16 37 38 17 4 17 38 39 18 4
>18 39 40 19 4 19 40 41 20
>CELL_DATA 20
>FIELD attributes 3
>p2 1 20 float
>-4.44268 -2.0507 -0.97831 -0.569803 -0.360867 -0.240873 -0.170058 
>-0.123445 -0.0869407 -0.0525158 -0.0147668
>0.0302908 0.0873895 0.164404 0.275265 0.446318 0.72455 1.22843 2.41296 
>4.92005
>p 1 20 float
>-4.44268 -2.0507 -0.97831 -0.569803 -0.360867 -0.240873 -0.170058 
>-0.123445 -0.0869407 -0.0525158 -0.0147668
>0.0302908 0.0873895 0.164404 0.275265 0.446318 0.72455 1.22843 2.41296 
>4.92005
>U 3 20 float
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
>0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
>0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
>0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
>POINT_DATA 42
>FIELD attributes 3
>p2 1 42 float
>-4.44268 -3.24669 -1.51451 -0.774056 -0.465335 -0.30087 -0.205465 
>-0.146751 -0.105193 -0.0697282 -0.0336413
>0.007762 0.0588401 0.125897 0.219835 0.360792 0.585434 0.97649 1.8207 
>3.66651 4.92005
>-4.44268 -3.24669 -1.51451 -0.774056 -0.465335 -0.30087 -0.205465 
>-0.146751 -0.105193 -0.0697282
>-0.0336413 0.007762 0.0588401 0.125897 0.219835 0.360792 0.585434 0.97649 
>1.8207 3.66651
>4.92005
>p 1 42 float
>-4.44268 -3.24669 -1.51451 -0.774056 -0.465335 -0.30087 -0.205465 
>-0.146751 -0.105193 -0.0697282 -0.0336413
>0.007762 0.0588401 0.125897 0.219835 0.360792 0.585434 0.97649 1.8207 
>3.66651 4.92005
>-4.44268 -3.24669 -1.51451 -0.774056 -0.465335 -0.30087 -0.205465 
>-0.146751 -0.105193 -0.0697282
>-0.0336413 0.007762 0.0588401 0.125897 0.219835 0.360792 0.585434 0.97649 
>1.8207 3.66651
>4.92005
>U 3 42 float
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
>0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
>0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
>0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
>0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
>0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
>0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
>0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
>1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
>0 0 1 0 0
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