Streamlines on sphere surface

You need to use the “Surface Streamlines” feature of the stream tracer.
Here is how to do it.

  • Open ParaView
  • Open your vector field, apply
  • Create a Sphere source, set the radius to a specific value, set the resolution to a high enough value (80, 80 should be ok), Apply
  • Click on your vector field in the pipeline browser
  • Add a resample with dataset filter, select your sphere as a source, Apply
  • Create a sphere source, set the radius to the same value as the other sphere, set the resolution to have enough seed for your streamlines (20, 20 should be ok), Apply
  • Click on the resample with dataset, in the pipeline browser
  • Add a StreamTracer with custom source, select the second sphere as a source, Apply


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