Glyph Spheres*
This Actor uses a sphere to show the quantity at a specific point in the Domain. The center of the sphere indicates the location of the point. By default, it uses different color to indicates the magnitude of the quantity. Similar to other Actors, it automatically extracts the minimum and maximum values of the quantity (at this point and in the time span of the simulation) and uses them to apply a default color map. You also have the option to customize the color map by specifying a different value range.
You can choose to fix the size of the sphere, in which case you can specify a size, or let the size vary with the quantity value – another way of indicating the magnitude of the monitored quantity. By default, the size of the sphere is set to be fixed to a default value.
The following is an example of the Actor applied to a point wind monitor for wind velocity.
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