<div dir="ltr"><div>Try this from a git checkout at the v5.10 (before modularization) tag:</div><div>git log v5.2.0...v5.8.0 --follow Graphics/vtkAppendPolyData.cxx <br></div><div>and </div><div>git log v5.2.0...v5.8.0 --follow Graphics/vtkRuledSurfaceFilter.cxx<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: <a href="tel:518-881-4909" value="+15188814909" target="_blank">518-881-4909</a></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Aaron Hickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron.hickerson@ondiagnostics.com" target="_blank">aaron.hickerson@ondiagnostics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am in the process of upgrading my company OS from ubuntu10 to ubuntu14 and so I am therefore dealing with an upgrade of vtk 5.2.1 to vtk 5.8. Our legacy software is heavily dependent on vtk and we are noticing some unexpected differences in outcomes with the newer 5.8 library. These differences are slight but for our regulated software we need to know why there are ANY differences in outcomes for this new release, no matter how small.</div><div><br></div><div>There were changes made to the classes vtkRuledSurfaceFilter and vtkAppendPolyData after 5.2.1 but I cannot find any succinct explanations as to why these changes were made. These are the two classes that I have identified that our software is dependent on that behave differently in this new release, and provide different outcomes. I have scoured the internet and looked at the source code in detail but I still cannot find any real explanation as to WHY these two classes were modified to produce different outcomes than in previous versions.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone point me to the changelog(s) for these classes that contain succinct explanations for the algorithmic changes?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, <span><font color="#888888"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Aaron Hickerson</span><br style="line-height:1.2em;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
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