Hello, I have a netcdf file which contain Bz component of magnetic field image and a data array with voxels containing Bx,By and Bz component. I want to color the open and closed field lines differently. How could I do that?
here is the pfe.nc file :
Hmm. If my understanding is correct, I don’t believe this is possible because the Flow renderer has no notion of an open or closed streamline. If you like, you could submit a feature request, however I think it would be fairly tricky to implement since the odds of a streamline’s start and end points being the same are extremely low.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful. If you do find an alternative solution, I’d be curious to know what that is.
Hi, I used python to differentiate closed (starting and emitting surfaces are same) and open field lines after collecting field lines drown using vapor. I am new to vapor and struggling to use python script as well. I need to access z coordinate variable. I am able to access only x coordinate only after writing x = x*Bx/Bx otherwise getting error as the screenshots I am posting.
Following paper used vapor to do that (figure 12.a2) so something definitely can be done. I wrote that netcdf file so I am not sure if there is any problem in the file.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6c24/pdf
I just wanted to let you know I haven’t forgotten about this. I need to carve out some time next week to take a closer look at your use case. Stay tuned.
Hi, I resolved that. Using 2 different seeds (one for open and one for closed) for different renderers and using different colors would work. Thanks btw for kind consideration.
Interesting. Were you only able to do this by knowing which seeds were open and closed by trial and error? I can’t think of another way to do this aside from guessing and checking.
I extracted all the flowlines and then based on some criteria like length , monotonicity and height-truncation etcetera in python, I sorted out open and closed field lines’ seeds and then used those seeds to plot.
