Particle Trajectories
Use a Particle Trajectories () plot to visualize the particle trajectories computed using one of the Particle Tracing physics interfaces. This plot must point to a Particle (Dataset). Add a Color Expression, Deformation, Export Expressions, Material Appearance, Filter, Translation, Transparency (3D only), or Visual Effects (3D only) subnode as needed. For the settings in the Filter subnode, see Filter for Particle Trajectories. Right-click a 2D Plot Group or 3D Plot Group to add this plot.
Go to Common Results Node Settings for links to information about these sections: Data, Title, Coloring and Style, Extra Time Steps, and Inherit Style. For Particle Trajectories plots, Particle, Ray, Particle Bin, Ray Bin, Intersection Point 2D and 3D, Receiver 2D and 3D, and Transformation 2D and 3D datasets are allowed as inputs.
The Particle Trajectories plot creates trajectories not for the actually selected time, parameter, or frequency value but for all values lower or equal to the selected value.
This Particle Trajectories plot is available with the Particle Tracing Module. However, the plot does not compute the particle trajectories during results processing — the trajectories are computed by one of the physics interfaces in the Particle Tracing Module. The plot can thereby render tens of thousands of particles quickly because the trajectories have already been computed.