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[Anton Gladky <gladky.anton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now it is possible to show Normal and Shear Vector forces like arrows.
Is it not enough? Or you mean, that we should store also lengths of those
vectors?


2010/7/20 Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>

> Hi Anton, I tried to find out how to do the cylinder network and we're
> having a problem with paraview actually here. There is a thread on that
> in https://answers.launchpad.net/esys-particle/+question/91547
>
> I had some success with applying the Cell centers to Point data filter
> (in Filters/Alphabetical) onto the intrs.*.vtu "source" in the object
> pipeline. Then one can attach regular glyphs to the result, specifying
> cylinder radius based on forceN. Two problems:
>
> 1. We don't store normals inside interactions, so the cylinders are not
> properly oriented.
>
> 2. There is no way (seems to me) to have cylinder glyph which will only
> have radius scaled using the scalar field (forceN), but height being
> equal to some other scalar value (interaction length, which we don't
> store either...)
>
> I am investigating it further. It seems like a thing that is frequently
> needed. Perhaps writing a few lines to do that inside Yade will be
> easier for now. Is there interest in that? Cylidners oriented along
> interactions scaled/colored based on normal force values...?
>
> Cheers, v.
>
>
>
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