[vtkusers] single actor with different cell-colors

[David E DeMarle]

Yes,

Read the documentation for vtkMapper. It explains how cell and point data is
mapped through a lookoup table to produce colors.

cheers,
Dave DeMarle

On 11/8/06, Jens <jens-devel at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to color cells depending on there cell-data.
>
> Is it possible to have one _single_ actor out of an unstructured grid,
> which cells are in different colors depending on the cell-data?
>
> I was searching for a possibility like that but only found ways to set
> the color of a whole actor.
>
> The only solution I can see now is to split the unstructured grid using
> vtkThreshold into  a bunch of small grids and create actors out of them.
> That would take much memory and time because each cell belongs to more
> than one color-region. I would have to run through the whole pipeline
> each time the user changes the color-region.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Greetings
> Jens
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