Animation View

Animation View is used to set up animations in ParaView. It's is accessible through View | Animation View. This article describes this view and how to use it to create simple animations.

The Animation View is intended to be a replacement for the Animation Inspector in ParaView 3.0. The Animation Inspector will be deprecated in future versions.

User Interface

Figure 1: Animation View

Figure 1 shows the the animation view. It is a standard dockable widget. There are three major portions to this panel:

• Scene Properties:

Show/Edit properties associated with the scene which affect the playback/saving animation.

• Animated Parameters:

Shows the animation tracks for each of the filter/source/camera paramters being animated in this setup.

• Animate more Paramaters:

Provides means to add animation tracks for other available parameters.

Use Cases

We will now see a few use-cases which will illustrate the use of this panel and each of its components.

Animate Parameters

One of the simplest animation set up is where the user wants to change a parameter on a filter or source through the course of the animation. For this use-case consider the following pipeline:

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