<div dir="ltr"><div>Nigel,</div>The pipeline executive compares the modification time (<span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">vtkObject::GetMTime()</span>) for the output of a filter against each of its inputs. If any of the inputs is newer, the filter is updated. It may be that your filter does not update the time of its output properly. This request is propagated upstream and stops if a filter has its inputs older than its output. I would setup a breakpoint and look at the first update for your filters.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:20 AM Nigel Mcfarlane <<a href="mailto:Nigel.Mcfarlane@beds.ac.uk">Nigel.Mcfarlane@beds.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear vtkusers,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am creating a visual pipe in vtk 6.2.0 and I am having problems connecting vtkAppendPolyData to multiple inputs which start from images of different dimensions. The visual pipe converts a set of input images into isosurfaces, adds scalars
for colour and transparency, then merges them into one polydata mesh so they can be depth sorted before rendering. Its structure looks like this:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">//</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// image1 image2 image3</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// | | |</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// DMCubes1 DMCubes2 DMCubes3</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// | | |</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// AddScalars1 AddScalars2 AddScalars3</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// \ | /</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// \ | /</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// \ | /</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// vtkAppendPolyData</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// |</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// vtkDepthSortPolyData</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// |</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// Mapper/Actor</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// |</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">// Renderer</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green;background:white">//</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The images are produced by vtkMetaImageReader, the “DMCubes” filters are vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes, and the”AddScalars” filters are my own code.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The problem is that this produces an image in which the dimensions/extents of two of the images have clearly been set incorrectly. I don’t know much about the way the vtk pipeline works, but I suppose that an information request for the
extents of the images travels up and back down the pipeline, so the extents get set to that of the last input, and then applied to all the inputs. The problem disappears if the input branches are first independently updated by calling a manual Update() on
each of the AddScalars filters, but it returns if one of the DMCubes filters is modified, which triggers another general update cycle.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there any way to set up this pipeline so that it does not require a manual update when the image inputs are modified?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nigel McFarlane<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Bedfordshire<u></u><u></u></p>
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