Select, if the Tensor Field should be displayed for Strain or Stress.

The Glyph Type can be set to Box, Ellipsoid, Main Direction or Super Quadric.

The Coloring can either be set to Main Direction or Shape.

For Main Direction, the main eigenvector is interpreted as RGB, i.e., red, green, and blue. An eigenvector for strain or stress is the direction (x,y,z) of the largest principal strain or the largest principal stress, respectively. If the vector is pointing in X-direction, the color is red, if it is pointing in Y-direction, the color is green and for the Z-direction it is blue. For everything in between, the colors are interpolated.

For Shape, the color depicts the shape of the tensor, i.e., the color depends on whether the tensor is mainly linear, planar, or spherical. If the shape is mostly linear, the color is red, if it is mostly planar, the color is green, and if it is mostly spherical, the color is blue.

The figure below (see also Kindlmann, 2004) shows how the certainties () for the tensor shape are computed based on the non-negative eigenvalues of the tensor. For strain and stress, the three eigenvalues are the three principal strains or stresses.

From the pull-down menu Visible on Material IDs select in which material IDs the volume field is visualized.

Clip the particle visualization area by selecting a Clip Direction, enabling Clip and moving the corresponding sliders or entering clipping values.

Otherwise, in the Visualization Settings dialog, use the option Data View u Tensors u Visibility u Clipping, working the same way as described for the structure.

Control the Spacing between the tensors in the three directions. Smaller spacing leads to smaller tensors, while larger values for spacing results in larger tensors.

Otherwise, in the Visualization Settings dialog, use the option Data View u Tensors u Spacing.