[vtkusers] Decimate

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Alan-

Classes in the ./patented directory are patented (i.e., vtkDecimate). 
Classes not in the
patent directory are not patented (i.e., vtkDecimatePro).

Try vtkQuadricClustering and vtkQuadricDecimation as well. They are 
available in the
nightly releases (http://www.kitware.com/vtkhtml/vtkdata/Nightly.html) and 
will be present in vtk3.2

Will

At 12:05 AM 12/22/2000 -0800, feigee at us.sina.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a dense mesh, but fairly regular (quads splitted into 
>triangles).  I tried to use Decimate (not DecimatePro) to reduce the 
>mesh.  However, it kept showing this message when executing it...
>
>
>Warning: in vtkDecimate.cxx, line 578
>   vtkDecimate (0x10404000): Exceeded maximum vertex degree
>
>
>and the resulting mesh, well, as the warning indicated, has a lot of cells 
>sharing one vertex.  Is there any way to avoid that by using some of the 
>methods to set the parameters?
>
>At the same time, is Decimate class a PATENTED one, or only DecimatePro is 
>patented?
>
>I also tried to use quadraticDecimate, but could not find it in 3.1.2, is 
>it something new for upcoming 3.2?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Alan
>
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