The explantion of the IPF color map legend

[min ji]

Hi, every one. I am a new learner for dream 3D,  I got a image by using "generate IPF colors" fileter (as attached bottom)  . I am wondering that why the legend is a bar but not the  standard inverse pole figure color stereographic triangle (as attached down). If so, how to get the orientation fro the bar legend? And how to understand the sentence to the explantation in the "Help": "  The RGB colors encoded as unsigned chars for each Element"?

If anyone can help me with this problem, I would be very much appreciated for this.

[jwen...@ucsb.edu]

Hello Min Ji,

By default, paraview is treating the RGB components of IPFcolor as a vector, and plotting the magnitude of that vector. You need to uncheck "map scalars" to have it display all 3 components as RGB values. This option is under the properties tab in paraview.

Note that there will still be shading to give a 3D illusion, so the colors still won't exactly match the IPF triangle. If you want to do any deeper analysis beyond just visualizing the data, you should use the Euler angles or quaternions directly, not IPF color.

Regards,

Joe