When I say deformed, I mean in comparison with undeformed, smooth surface state, this is deformed. I don’t mean deformed as in bug. Are you saying given what data is available in the VTK file, there is no way Paraview would visualize this any differently because the coordinates of the points are deformed?
But this will make selecting cell data for plotting difficult. From our discussion, I found this thread: Create Undeformed Geometry Coordinates for use in Selecting Deformed Geometry (Exodus example)
But I cannot find this “apply displacement” option. To be fair, I am also not working with a .e file, whatever that file is supposed to be. I believe the reason this deformed state shows up so clearly is because in this simulation, the model is extremely deformed. In my previous attempts, I have not gone this far. If I were to output the initial coordinates of the points as well, is there a way to have the model not show deformed points, and show the initial point coordinates while plotting cell data over it?