# Not able to visualize orientation with Quaternions in vtu files

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-visualize-orientation-with-quaternions-in-vtu-files/17742
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 26, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-visualize-orientation-with-quaternions-in-vtu-files/17742 "2026-09-26T15:57:42Z")
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### Author: ![pfahd](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/pfahd/32/17942_2.png) [@pfahd](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/pfahd)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/not-able-to-visualize-orientation-with-quaternions-in-vtu-files/17742/3 "2026-09-28T21:16:06Z")

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Hi @mwestphal , thank you for your reply. Is the image you generated using the data I shared? could you share the script please?

And about the sphere orientation, ParaView can actually do that. We just need to make low resolution Glyph. See an example below (here I used a vector to specify orientation)  
 ![test2](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/6/0/60d8f7d89318b2df606b04453fc6c63f2d0552e5.gif)

Another way is to color Glyph in different directions with different colors. See an example in my [previous post](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/custom-glyph-orientation-after-transform-causes-unexpected-lighting-behavior/17670/7). And about the scaling, when I use `ScaleFactor=1`, spheres are so big that they overlap each other. I am able to reproduce this still, using the same samples configuration files I shared. So, somehow my data needs a smaller value.

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