[Paraview] batch create thumbnails for multiple .vtk files?

[Rob Nugen]

Great Robert; thanks so much!

Thank you again, David, for bringing it to my attention!  You're
right; we didn't need Paraview at all!  Thank you for simplifying the
problem.  :-)

    cheers
     - Rob


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 23:45, Robert Maynard <robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
> That example will create an executable that can be run from the command
> line.
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rob Nugen <users-paraview.org at robnugen.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> HI David
>>
>> Thanks for the links!!  Do you know if the code at
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/Screenshot is
>> designed to be compiled and run from command line?  If so, then I
>> think it can do the trick if I feed it filenames with a bash script...
>>
>>   cheers
>>   - Rob
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 21:37, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This should do the trick:
>> > http://paraview.org/Wiki/Take_a_Screenshot_of_a_VTP_File
>> > (linked to from here: http://paraview.org/Wiki/Python_recipes (this
>> > could use some organizing) ).
>> >
>> > Or you probably don't need Paraview at all for this - why not use VTK
>> > directly?
>> >
>> > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Utilities/Screenshot
>> >
>> > David
>>
>> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Rob Nugen
>> > <users-paraview.org at robnugen.com> wrote:
>> >> When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one person
>> >> to visualize the .vtk files which have been collected from another,
>> >> and to assume among the powers of the server that the separate and
>> >> manual loading of each would cause undue stress upon the user, a
>> >> decent respect to the opinions of the list requires that they should
>> >> declare a script which impels the computer to do the visualization.
>> >>
>> >> That's my creative way of asking if anyone has written a script to go
>> >> through thousands of .vtk files and create a screenshot of each.
>> >> During this project, we've created and collected a great number of
>> >> .vtk files, and want to essentially be able to make thumbnails of them
>> >> all so we know which should be saved and which can be discarded.
>> >>
>> >> The optimal solution would allow specifying the camera angle to be run
>> >> for each screenshot.
>> >>
>> >> Searching for "paraview 'save state'" (no outer quotes) seems to be in
>> >> the right direction.  I found
>> >> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting but I don't see that
>> >> the same filters can be saved and applied to a different data set.
>> >>
>> >>  Thanks!
>> >>  - Rob
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