[vtkusers] precision of SPACING

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 17:01:08 EST 2010


If you store the file as binary, I think you'll retain the full precision.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to tell VTK to store the SPACING (as in legacy VTK
> files) in higher precision? As far as I can see, this is limited to
> seven, eight significant digits. It's not that I need 15 digits for
> plotting but for reading and working with it I do. An easy workaround
> would of course be to to the values separately in a field.
>
> XML-based VTI, for example, stores 15 digits. Is that something one can rely on?
>
> Cheers,
> Nico
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