[vtkusers] how to interpret the color spectrum in vtkLookUpTable

[Sylvain Jaume]

Hi Kiran,

You could display a vtkScalarBarActor to visualize the color mapping. 
Did you set the scalar range in your vtkLookupTable and vtkPolyDataMapper ?

Cheers,
Sylvain

kshivann at engineering.uiowa.edu wrote:

>hi all,
>    i am plotting difference in the distance between the two surfaces  as a
>scalar. the distances start from 0 and do not have an upper limit. it is not
>clear how the distance values are converted to color values. should i normalize
>the distance values so that the maximum distance is 1.
>
>thanks
>
>kiran
>
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