particle size in paraview screenshot

Submitted by msandli on Fri, 01/12/2018 - 20:40

couldn't find anything in a search

in paraview, I use the liggghts reader and the point sprite plugin to visualize my solutions, because that saves a ton of computer resources compared to using a glyph.

i frequently save screenshots for papers, presentations, etc. when I save a screenshot at the default image size (approx 1000x700 on my machine), everything looks as it should. if I try to save a screenshot at a larger size (say, 4000x3000), the point sprites seem scale with the image size, i.e., get bigger. this happens whether I scale the particles by the radius transfer function, or by a constant value (all of my particles are the same size).

is this a "feature" of the point sprite plugin? saving screenshots with spherical glyphs don't behave this way, but with larger simulations, the extreme memory requirements can cause my computer to crash, so that's not always a viable option.

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richti83 | Tue, 02/20/2018 - 08:02

When you use PV<5.x with openGL1 go to Tools->Manage Plugins and enable PointSprite Plugin, than follow [1] chapter 2. When you have PV 5.4.1 with OpenGL2 (the pre build from kitware homepage) there is no PointSprite plugin, but a new PointGaussian Representation, just select it in the Representation DropDown Field and make sure you enabled all options with the little gear right top of the properties panel, than follow [2].

[1] http://www.richtisoft.de/transfer/howto_paraview.pdf
[2] http://www.richtisoft.de/transfer/HowTo_Gaussian.pdf

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