# Locate maximum and minimum
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/locate-maximum-and-minimum/9157
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 10, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/locate-maximum-and-minimum/9157 "2022-03-10T04:26:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/locate-maximum-and-minimum/9157/1 "2022-03-10T04:26:23Z")
How do I locate a minimum and maximum of a displayed scalar field?
And when I say “locate”, I mean the code should locate it for me.
Perhaps with a glyph?
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### Author:  [@s195t](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/s195t)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/locate-maximum-and-minimum/9157/2 "2022-03-10T07:20:47Z")
If I recall correctly there is a “Find Data” option under the View menu, which you can filter for the max and the min of the field.
It would be interesting to know if there is a better way to do it and maybe something to extract local minima and local maxima for a whole scalar field as well
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2022, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/locate-maximum-and-minimum/9157/3 "2022-03-10T09:26:56Z")
You can do it with a SelectQuery python call as well.
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/locate-maximum-and-minimum/9157/4 "2022-03-10T15:03:36Z")
Many thanks. That is precisely what I was looking for.