[Paraview] Graph Structure in ParaView ?

[Jacques Papper]

Thank you,

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.

Jacques

2008/12/11 Jeff Baumes <jeff.baumes at kitware.com>

>  On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Jacques Papper
> <jacques.papper at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a 100 million point connected graph (No cell information - only
> > points and edges and boundaries defined by certain points and edges)
>  that I
> > would like to visualize. I would like to be able to load it in parallel
> and
> > post-process it in parallel. I would like to do things like streamlines /
> > surface contours on the boundaries of the graph etc... Also I would like
> it
> > to have groups (or blocks) for the different surfaces in the graph. Is
> there
> > any way of doing this with ParaView ? Is there a certain class /
> algorithm
> > that can accomodate this type of data structure ?
>
> Sandia National Labs and Kitware are in the midst of making it
> possible to store and process very large graphs in distributed memory
> using vtkGraph and the Parallel Boost Graph Library. Some of this is
> currently in VTK, but it is not yet incorporated into ParaView. Your
> other choice which may work for you is to use vtkPolyData with line
> cells, since some of the operations you are talking about exist in
> ParaView for polygonal geometry, although I don't know the exact
> sequence of filters you would need for your use case. ParaView also
> has the notion of multi-block data sets which can group assoicated
> data sets into one object.
>
> Jeff
>
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