Also see, http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Representations_and_Views. It is out of date ever since since 3.14's redesign of the rendering architecture so the names of the classes are different but the overall flow is the same.
David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909 On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Joachim Pouderoux < [email protected]> wrote: > Boris, > > In the 3D View, and depending on the Render View settings, the client may > render the geometry (that is the external surface) of the datasets that it > receives from the server using OpenGL, or it can receive and display the > images (remote rendering) generated by the server. With the first mode, the > interaction is performed locally with some VTK graphical pipelines (camera, > interactors, rendere, etc.); when the rendering is performed remotely, the > client sends the local camera properties to the server so it can generate > images from the correct viewpoint. > > So depending the mode, the raw surface geometry can be transfered or some > compressed images (different compression techniques are available, see > Settings / Render View panel). > > Some other views (eg. 2D plots) may have different behaviour and might > require the full dataset to be transfered from the server to the client for > display/analysis (in this case, this will not scale of course : eg. if you > plot a huge UnstructuredGrid within a Line Plot view after applying the > Plot Data filter)... > > Hope it helps, > > Joachim > > *Joachim Pouderoux* > > *PhD, Technical Expert* > *Kitware SAS <http://www.kitware.fr>* > > > 2014-11-24 12:17 GMT+01:00 Boris Bobrov <[email protected]>: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to understand the architecture of paraview and it's dataflow. >> >> 1. What kind of rendering happens on client side? What rendering does >> default paraview client perform? Does it use OpenGL or something? What >> happens when I drag an image in the client? >> >> 2. What kind of data flows between a client, a data server and a >> rendering server? What's the format? >> >> I tried to search the wiki but either I am a bad lurker or it's not >> there. I am also not sure which mailing list to use, so I'll send this >> email to both. >> -- >> WBR, >> Boris >> _______________________________________________ >> Paraview-developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview-developers >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >
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