[GRASS-dev] GRASS and Paraview

[Michael Barton]

Soren,

If I get bold enough to try this, do I need to have source trees of both GRASS and VTK? And if so, do I need to have VTK compiled? I'm using a binary of Paraview but don't have VTK independent of that (AFAIK).

Also, do I need to put this anywhere in particular or will make install do it for me?

Thanks
Michael

On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Sören Gebbert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2012/2/14 Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>:
>> Thanks Markus,
>> 
>> But I don't quite understand how the bridge works. Do you run it from GRASS or ParaView, both or neither (i.e., from the terminal outside either program)?
> 
> The vtk-grass-bridge is a C++ library and must be compiled. I did not
> test the compilation on Windows or Mac,
> but it should work ..... in theory. The library depends on VTK[1],
> cmake[2] and of course on GRASS GIS 7.
> A detailed compilation guide is available here:
> http://code.google.com/p/vtk-grass-bridge/wiki/HowToCompile
> 
> Once compiled, the C++ classes can be used together with VTK classes
> in GRASS GIS Python modules. Hence, all the shiny data processing
> algorithms available in ParaView can be used directly with GRASS GIS
> raster, vector and raster3d.
> Have a look at the Python examples[3, 4, 5, 6]. Since these modules
> are regular GRASS "programs" they must be executed in a grass7 shell.
> 
> [1] http://www.vtk.org/
> [2] http://www.cmake.org/
> [3] http://code.google.com/p/vtk-grass-bridge/source/browse/trunk/Modules/Python/r3.gauss.smooth.py
> [4] http://code.google.com/p/vtk-grass-bridge/source/browse/trunk/Modules/Python/v.sample.rast.py
> [5] http://code.google.com/p/vtk-grass-bridge/source/browse/trunk/Modules/Python/r3.out.vtk2.py
> [6] http://code.google.com/p/vtk-grass-bridge/source/browse/trunk/Modules/Python/
> 
> Best regards
> Soeren
> 
>> 
>> Also, I assume it must be compiled. Do you (or someone) know if it has been compiled for Windows and Mac as well as Linux?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Michael
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>> C. Michael Barton
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>> National Center for Atmospheric Research &
>> University Consortium for Atmospheric Research
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>> 
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>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>> GRASS has r.out.vtk, v.out.vtk, and r3.out.vtk to export GRASS data to
>>>> Paraview files.
>>>> 
>>>> But how can I read Paraview files back into GRASS?
>>> 
>>> Please see
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_VTK
>>> -> Import of VTK data into GRASS
>>> 
>>> Markus
>> 
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_____________________
C. Michael Barton
Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research &
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
303-497-2889 (voice)

Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu