Scripting
Ben Trumbore
Cornell Center for Advanced Computing
Revisions: 8/2022, 8/2017 (original)
ParaView provides users with the opportunity to extend its basic functionality in several ways, including with Python scripts. Such scripts can be used to easily perform a sequence of operations or to define customized behavior for data sources, filters and views.
Objectives
After you complete this segment, you should be able to:
- Demonstrate using the calculator filter
- Explain how to calculate a vector
- Demonstrate calculating new geometry data
- Distinguish between the calculator filter and the Python calculator filter
- Demonstrate launching the Python shell from ParaView
- Explain the purpose of creating a programmable source
- Distinguish between a programmable source and a programmable filter
- Demonstrate creating customized views of visualization pipeline data
- Name the two functions required for scripting a Python View
Prerequisites
- Complete the basic ParaView tutorial.