Paraview和vtk的学习笔记（一）

在Paraview中，simple.py承接着与外界用户接口的任务，一个最基本的使用Paraview例子就是：

 from paraview.simple import *

  # Create a new sphere proxy on the active connection and register it
  # in the sources group.
  sphere = Sphere(ThetaResolution=16, PhiResolution=32)

  # Apply a shrink filter
  shrink = Shrink(sphere)

  # Turn the visiblity of the shrink object on.
  Show(shrink)

  # Render the scene
  Render()

可以看到，其实第一个函数，就是创建一个source，第二个函数是一个filter。接下来的Show函数其实就是：

def Show(proxy=None, view=None, **params):
    """Turns the visibility of a given pipeline object on in the given view.
    If pipeline object and/or view are not specified, active objects are used."""
    if proxy == None:
        proxy = GetActiveSource()
    if proxy == None:
        raise RuntimeError, "Show() needs a proxy argument or that an active source is set."
    if not view:
        # it here's now active view, controller.Show() will create a new preferred view.
        # if possible.
        view = active_objects.view
    controller = servermanager.ParaViewPipelineController()
    rep = controller.Show(proxy, proxy.Port, view)
    if rep == None:
        raise RuntimeError, "Could not create a representation object for proxy %s" % proxy.GetXMLLabel()
    for param in params.keys():
        setattr(rep, param, params[param])
    return rep

这个方法其中有一行

        raise RuntimeError, "Could not create a representation object for proxy %s" % proxy.GetXMLLabel()

告诉我们，其实rep就是一个representation。所以它就是把这个filter处理后的source绑定到当前的view和代理上。产生一个representation。

最后是Render函数：

def Render(view=None):
    """Renders the given view (default value is active view)"""
    if not view:
        view = active_objects.view
    view.StillRender()
    if _funcs_internals.first_render:
        # Not all views have a ResetCamera method
        try:
            view.ResetCamera()
            view.StillRender()
        except AttributeError: pass
        _funcs_internals.first_render = False
    return view

其实就是开始渲染，调用了

 view.StillRender()

进行渲染。

这其实与servermanager.py中的基本例子是一样的。simple.py通过调用servermanager中的函数完成渲染，用servermanager中的函数我们也可以做到，具体是：