# Show particle orientation with texture
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 25, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383 "2025-03-25T10:01:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/1 "2025-03-25T10:01:44Z")
Can I somehow show the orientation of particles in a point cloud? I have a table of points, each storing a particle size (radius) and orientation vectors. I would like to see them rotate. My idea was to represent them as 3D sphere glyphs, and then apply a texture to them, but this does not seem to be available.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/2 "2025-03-25T16:48:12Z")
> [@Roman](#):
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> 3D sphere glyphs,
Use 3D glyphs representation
> then apply a texture to them
Are you trying to visualize a gaussian splatting data ?
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/3 "2025-03-25T16:56:02Z")
Im using the 3D glyphs representation, sorry if I was unclear. 3D glyphs with Sphere as Glyph Type.
My data is not Gaussian splatting, just plain old spherical particles from a DEM simulation.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/4 "2025-03-25T17:02:22Z")
> [@Roman](#):
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> 3D glyphs with Sphere as Glyph Type.
Great! Then that works for you ?
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/5 "2025-03-25T18:47:02Z")
That part works, yes (always has). But how do I then apply the texture to each glyph? I’ve tried applying the TextureMaptoSphere filter and loading the PNG image, but the particles still appear untextured.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/6 "2025-03-26T08:48:55Z")
Ha, got it.
Sadly, even with the “GlyphWithCustomSource” this is not supported yet.
It should be pretty simple to add by keeping the source array in the data.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/7 "2025-03-26T10:07:04Z")
Ok, I see, thanks. I wasn’t sure if I missed something. Should I open a feature request for this?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/8 "2025-03-26T10:39:58Z")
Yes please!
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2025, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/show-particle-orientation-with-texture/16383/9 "2025-03-27T08:32:14Z")
Feature Request is posted here: [https://discourse.paraview.org/t/apply-texture-to-3d-glyphs-to-visualize-particle-orientation](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/apply-texture-to-3d-glyphs-to-visualize-particle-orientation)