Plotting many lines throws errors if x/y/z data is reduced in size
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Similar to https://github.com/enthought/mayavi/issues/770
I took this: http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/auto/example_plotting_many_lines.html
And modify the x/y/z points data to reduce the number of points, leaving mlab_source.dataset.lines alone. If the previous .lines overindexes the new points array, a bunch of errors show up in the vtkWindowError.
Setting .lines to None before updating the x/y/z/scalar data prevents the errors.
Either mayavi should silently set `pd.lines=None` for you, or probably better would be to detect when x/y/z/scalar data is reducing in size, and if there's existing .lines data, warn the user that they need to clear/reset lines around the x/y/z update call, and set .lines to None to avoid the vtk errors.
Or at a minimum, add an example of this to the example linked above.
Similar to referenced bug, run `python2 bug_lines.py [errors|skip|workaround]` to illustrate.
Test case attached here: [lines.zip](https://github.com/enthought/mayavi/files/3122989/lines.zip)
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