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Plot Selection Over Time (ExtractSelectionOverTime)

Extracts selection over time and then plots it.

This filter extracts the selection over time, i.e. cell and/or point variables at a cells/point selected are extracted over time The output multiblock consists of 1D rectilinear grids where the x coordinate corresponds to time (the same array is also copied to a point array named Time or TimeData (if Time exists in the input)). If selection input is a Location based selection then the point values are interpolated from the nearby cells, ie those of the cell the location lies in.

Property Description Default(s) Restrictions
Input The input from which the selection is extracted.  

Accepts input of following types:

  • vtkDataSet
  • vtkTable
  • vtkCompositeDataSet
Selection The input that provides the selection object.  

Accepts input of following types:

  • vtkSelection
Only Report Selection Statistics If this property is set to 1, the min, max, inter-quartile ranges, and (for numeric arrays) mean and standard deviation of all the selected points or cells within each time step are reported -- instead of breaking each selected point's or cell's attributes out into separate time history tables. 1

Accepts boolean values (0 or 1).