[Paraview] render module interface documentation

[Doug McCorkle]

Charles,
      I again have time to look at the render module again. I have looked
through the PVPartDisplay and am not sure where the actortopf translator
would go. Which subclass were you thinking the translator would go in? 

Doug

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Law [mailto:charles.law at kitware.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:50 AM
>To: mccdo at iastate.edu; paraview at paraview.org
>Subject: RE: [Paraview] render module interface documentation
>
>Doug,
>
>I believe the cave render module classes I referenced were added after
>1.4.  I just looked at the vtkActorToPF web pages at UIUC.  It would be
>easy enough to create the actor to PF translator object in a subclass of
>vtkPVPartDisplay.  I assume that ParaView would keep its vtkRenderWindow
>for the GUI, and Performer would manage its own rendering and cameras.  I
>do not know enough about Performer to say any more.
>
>Charles.
>
>
>At 01:17 PM 7/6/2004 -0500, Doug McCorkle wrote:
>>Charles,
>>      Thanks for your detailed response.  I look forward to your more
>formal
>>documentation. I would like to explore writing a plugin that would allow
>>rendering with Performer by using the vtkActorToPF library out of UIUC. I
>>would like to be able to take advantage of a scene graph and the
>>functionality of paraview. Do you think this is feasible? Also, are there
>>doxygen pages created for the vtk classes you mentioned?
>>
>>Doug
>