[Paraview] Combining (parts of) filters to create a new one

[David E DeMarle]

Hi Sylvester.

ParaView 3 has a "Custom Filters" for this purpose. What they let you
do is choose a set of filters from the pipeline browser and roll them
all up into a macro that you can apply on other input data. To try it,
select the sub pipeline that you want to save as a macro in the
PipeLine Browser. Then go to Tools->Create Custom Filter. Enter in a
name for the macro and hit next. On the next dialogs, choose and name
the input, output and filter parameters from the filters in the sub
pipeline that you want to expose as properties in the macro. You can
save and import the macros that you create. The created and imported
macros show up in the Filters->Alphabetical menu under whatever names
you gave them.

Two issues:
1) Custom Filters are still buggy as of release 3.2.
2) Custom Filters only let you aggregate the features of the available
filters. If you can not do what you want with some combination of the
stock filters (or filters from plugins, or the python programmable
filter) and their settings, then you still have to write a new filter
at some point.

hth
Dave DeMarle


On 10/23/07, Sylvester Gerardson <sylvester.gerardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> [my apologies if this is a double post]
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am asked to create a new filter for paraview. As I am new to paraview/VTK
> I am not sure what is the best strategy to do this.
>
> The new filter should:
> 1. take points from a cutplane (node points or cell centres, it does not
> really matter)
> 2. start streamlines from these points
> 3. take the integration time of the final segment of each streamline to
> colour the cutplane
>
> Can this be done?
> Has somebody done this before?
> How best to do this? Should this be done with a Python Programmable Filter,
> or should I create a plug-in?
>
> Any help is highly appreciated!
>
> Sylvester.
>
> Ps. I compiled PV 3.2 and 3.3 development on OpenSuse 10.2 without
> difficulties. However every time I try to create a cutplane (or slice a I
> believe it is called) PV exits with a segmentation fault. Even when I try to
> use it on a standard cylinder source. All other filters behave normally.
> Any thoughts on this?
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