[Paraview] streamlines

Jean Favre jfavre at cscs.ch
Mon Dec 1 10:58:43 EST 2008


Giovanni Delibra wrote:
> Hello everybody
> I have some problems in understanding how to plot streamtraces
> My problem is that whatever the seed type I use they seem to "die out"
> just a few distance from the seed
>
> any suggestions?
>

don't use a line for seeds, but use a random sub-sample of points all
over the domain. Use MaskPoints from your mesh to generate the seeds.
And use "Stream Tracer "Custom Source)" from the Filters menu to
calculates streamlines. Set the Source to the output of MaskPoints

Jean  --
Swiss National Supercomputing Center




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