Actors
Actors control the way the data for a specific quantity is viewed. Depending on the type of Monitors and the nature of the quantities, a variety of Actors are supported in Virtualwind.
Actor Types for Domain Wind Monitor
Domain Wind Monitor supports the following types of Actors:
- OrthoSliceIsoLines: generating isolines for a quantity on an orthoslice;
- OrthoSliceSolidContours: generating solid contours for a quantity on an orthoslice;
- OrthoSliceVectors: rendering a vector quantity on an orthoslice;
- IsoSurfaceIsoLines: generating isolines for a quantity on the isosurface generated from another quantity;
- IsoSurfaceSolidContours: generating solid contours for a quantity on the isosurface generated from another quantity;
- IsoSurfaceVectors: generating an isosurface from a quantity and shows another vector quantity at points of this isosurface;
- VolumeRendering: rendering the volume data of a quantity directly.
In general, all these Actors can be used for viewing vector quantities – quantities that have not only a magnitude but also a direction, such as the wind velocity. For vectors quantities, the IsoLines and SolidContours are generated from the magnitude of the quantity.
For scalar quantities – quantities that have only a magnitude, such as the wind speed, actors 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 can be used.
Actor Types for Domain Fluid Species Monitor
Domain Fluid Species Monitor* supports the same types of Actors as scalar quantities of Domain Wind Monitor do – fluid species is a scalar quantity. The Actors it supports are:
- OrthoSliceIsoLines;
- OrthoSliceSolidContours;
- IsoSurfaceIsoLines;
- IsoSurfaceSolidContours;
- VolumeRendering.
Actor Types for Point Wind Monitor
Point Wind Monitor* supports the following types of Actors:
- GlyphSpheres: a sphere whose center indicates the position of the point and size or color indicates the magnitude of the quantity;
- GlypheVectors: a 3D arrow whose starting point indicates the position of the point, size or color indicates the magnitude of the quantity, and direction indicates the direction of the quantity.
Both Actors can be used for vector quantities and only GlyphSpheres can be used for scalar quantities.
Actor Types for Tracer Particle Monitor
Tracer Particle Monitor* supports these two types of Actors:
- GlyphSpheres;
- GlyphVectors.
The center of the sphere or the starting point of the arrow indicates the position of each particle. The color indicates the magnitude of the monitored quantity.
Information on each Actor type can be accessed through the links listed here.