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Paraview Tutorial

Selection in ParaView allows users to identify a subset of data to focus on. The active selection is shown across multiple views and can be inspected and modified using the Selection Inspector. Data for the selected items can be explored in the Spreadsheet View. A selection can be extracted to process just the subset alone using additional filters. This allows selection of data to track over time or focus analysis on specific regions.

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Paraview Tutorial

Selection in ParaView allows users to identify a subset of data to focus on. The active selection is shown across multiple views and can be inspected and modified using the Selection Inspector. Data for the selected items can be explored in the Spreadsheet View. A selection can be extracted to process just the subset alone using additional filters. This allows selection of data to track over time or focus analysis on specific regions.

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Selection in ParaView

Utkarsh Ayachit
Kitware Inc.
Selection

• Mechanism to identify subset of a dataset


• Focus on selected subset
• Inspect properties of the subset
• Further process subset alone
• Track subset over time
Focus on subset
Track subset over time
Selection in ParaView

• What are we selecting?


• Data produced by a source
• Active Selection
• One application wide selection
• All views show the same selection if possible
• Creating a new selection results in removing the old one
• Transient: cannot be saved in state files, does not respect
undo/redo.
Selection Components

• Selection Inspector
• Inspect the active selection

• Spreadsheet View
• Inspect the selected data
Active Selection Inspector

• Accessible through View |


Selection Inspector
• Used to create/modify active
selection
• Shows the properties of the
active selection
• Control how the active selection
is shown
Create new selection
Active selection
Selection type
properties

Selected cells ids

Selection display
Properties/Labeling
Spreadsheet View

• Used to view the raw cell/point


data
• To create: split an existing view
and select “Spreadsheet view”
• Display tab provides option to
view only selected items
What is
shown in
the view

Show only
selected items

Attribute shown

Select block
to inspect
Selecting using 3D View

• Surface cells/points
• Cells/Points within a frustum
• Blocks in a composite dataset
Select Cells on surface

• Used to select any set of visible


cells on the surface of a dataset
• Representation should be
points / wireframe / surface /
surface with edges
• With 3D view active, use the
‘Select Cells On’ tool button
(shortcut ‘S’) to enter selection
mode
• Click and drag to select cells
Select Points on surface

• Same as selecting cells on


surface except use ‘Select
Points On’ tool button.
Selection Linking

• Selection is linked among all


views (whenever possible)

• Active selection is shown in all


view (whenever possible)
Select Cells Through

• Select all cells intersecting a


frustum
• Use ‘Select Cells Through’
• Selection Inspector has a check
button to show the selection
frustum
• Use ‘Select Points Through’
for selecting points
Select Blocks

• Select blocks in a composite dataset


Composite Datasets

• Composite datasets are


datasets comprising of other
datasets.
• Group together assemblies:
vtkMultiBlockDataSet
• Adaptive mesh refinement:
vtkHierarchicalBoxDataSet
Select Blocks

• Use ‘Select Block’ (shortcut ‘B’)


to select blocks in a composite
dataset
• Keep Ctrl pressed when
clicking to add to existing
selected blocks
Selecting using Spreadsheet View

• Can create Point/Cell index


based selections (depending on
what attribute is being shown)
• Click to select rows as one
would in any spreadsheet
application
• Can use modifiers such as Ctrl,
Shift while selecting
• Selection is shown in all views
Selecting using Selection Inspector

• Create new selections


• Convert selections
• id based to global id based
• frustum to id based
• Modify existing selection
Location based selection

• Select cell enclosing the


location or select point closet to
the location within a threshold
• Created using the Selection
Inspector and changing the
selection type to Locations
• Provides widgets to specify
locations
Threshold based selection

• Select cells or points that have


an attribute value within the
specified range
• Created using Selection
Inspector
Labeling Selected Items

• Label selected cells/points


using Selection Inspector
• Choose the array/id to label
with
Extract Selection

• Extract selected subset for


further processing
• Create ‘Extract Selection’ filter
• Make selection and ‘Copy
Active Selection’
• Hit ‘Apply’
Extract Selection

• Once a selection is extracted


it’s treated as a first class data
source.
• One can apply filters to it as
usual.
• Extracted selection get saved in
state files.
Plot Selection over Time

• Plot data variable changes over


time for a set of cells or points
• Use ‘Plot Selection Over Time’
filter
• Make selection and ‘Copy
Active Selection’
• Output can be shown on a XY
plot
Plot Selection over Time

• Changes for each cell/point


selected can be plotted, one at
a time, by choosing the block
on the Display Tab
Conclusion

• Selection provides mechanism to focus on a subset of the dataset


• Selection identifies the cells/points in the output of a filter/source
• Active selection is shown in all views (when applicable)
• Selection inspector can be used to create/modify the active selection
• Spreadsheet view can be used to explore the attribute values for the
selected items
• Extracting a selection makes it possible to further processes the
selected subset

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