from paraview import servermanager

connection = servermanager.Connect ()
coneSource = servermanager.sources.ConeSource()
shrinkFilter = servermanager.filters.ShrinkFilter(Input=coneSource)
shrinkFilter.UpdatePipeline()
shrinkFilter.GetDataInformation().GetNumberOfCells()
shrinkFilter.GetDataInformation().GetNumberOfPoints()
coneSource.Resolution = 32
shrinkFilter.UpdatePipeline()
shrinkFilter.GetDataInformation().GetNumberOfPoints()
view = servermanager.CreateRenderView()
rep = servermanager.CreateRepresentation(shrinkFilter, view)
view.ResetCamera()
view.StillRender()
view.WriteImage ("/tmp/test.png", "vtkPNGWriter", 1)