Isosurface Solid Contours
This Actor generates solid contours for a quantity on the isosurface generated from another quantity.
Solid contours are filled contours of the magnitude of a certain quantity on a surface. For a chosen quantity, this Actor automatically extracts the minimum and maximum values at points on the surface and allows you to specify the number of contours you want to construct within this range.
You can also customize the minimum and maximum limits used to color map the data to highlight a particular value range. By default, they are set to the extracted minimum and maximum values.
The only difference between this Actor and the OrthoSliceSolidContours is that this Actor constructs contours on an isosurface whereas the OrthoSliceSolidContours Actor constructs contours on an orthoslice –– a slice plane of the Domain volume that is orthogonal to the Domain's X, Y, or Z axis. Therefore, to use this Actor, you need to specify the following in order to define the isosurface first:
- a quantity based on which to construct the isosurface
- a value of the quantity from which the isosurface can be extracted.
The following is an example of the solid contours of wind velocity on the isosurface of 20m terrain elevation at a certain time spot.
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