[Paraview] Attach arrows onto streamlines/stream tubes more smoothly

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Try changing the "Glyph Type" to Cone. See attached image.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:
> I think it is because you have set the Shaft radius to 0. The start of the
> arrow doesn't appear because of this and I'm suspecting that the start of
> the arrow is centered along the streamline. Maybe try using using either a
> non-zero value for the Shaft radius that is bigger than the Tube radius or
> use the Cone glyph type instead.
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Liang Wang <frank0734 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andy,
>>
>> The results are similar if I apply glyph on streamlines directly (see the
>> attached image).
>>
>> I guess the difficulty part is that arrow heads are not easily centered on
>> lines/tubes?
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How does it look if you Glyph the streamlines themselves instead of the
>>> tubes?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Liang Wang <frank0734 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> By using the arrow glyph filter on the lines/tubes, the arrows are often
>>>> slightly dislocated (and thus slightly misaligned) from the tubes themselves
>>>> (see the attached image).
>>>>
>>>> In comparison, I am trying to get images like
>>>> http://www.tecplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/fstream.jpg or
>>>> https://i.stack.imgur.com/z8nkm.png
>>>>
>>>> Logically, the arrows could have been an attribute of the
>>>> streamlines/stream tubes?
>>>>
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