<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Imre Goretzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goretzki.imre@gmail.com" target="_blank">goretzki.imre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey guys,<br>
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I have a question about the "GenerateValues" method of MarchingCubes. My image has several points that have intensity values that lie between 928 and 1600.<br>
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My understand of<br>
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int idxContour = 1;<br>
double from = 920;<br>
double to = 930;<br>
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ImageToVTKImageFilter con = ...<br>
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marchingCube->setInputData(con->GetOutput());<br>
marchingCube->GenerateValues(idxContour, from, to);<br>
marchingCube->Update();<br>
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is that the algorithm will take all points that have an intensity value that lies between 920 and 930. These points are combined to one contour. Via MATLAB and ITK's histogram I can validate the amout of points that have a specific intensity value. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
If I plot the points that were generated by marching cubes, I do not get all of them (I cannot see all of them), e.g.<br>
the histogram says that there are about 200000 points that have an intensity value 928. If I use 928 as the lower bound for the GenerateValues method, there are just some of them plotted - approximately.<br>
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Is my understanding of GenerateValues correct?<br></blockquote><div> </div><div><div>Not exactly. vtkMarchingCubes will extract individual isocontours - surfaces that represent the locations in a dataset with a particular value. vtkMarchingCubes and other isocontour filters in VTK can generate surfaces from more than one isovalue. GenerateValues() is a convenience function to specify a range of isovalues.</div><div><br></div><div>A vtkThreshold filter will extract all points in the dataset in a value range and may be what you want.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Next question: (more than 1 contour)<br>
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If I want to generate more than 1 contour. How do I initialize the marchingCube and, more interesting, how do I get the output of a specific contour. I'm thinking about the following:<br>
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marchingCube->SetNumberOfContours(2);<br>
marchingCube->GenerateValues(1, from_1, to_1);<br>
marchingCube->GenerateValues(2, from_2, to_2);<br>
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vtkSmartPointer<vtkOutlineFilter> outline = vtkSmartPointer<vtkOutlineFilter>::New();<br>
outline->SetInputConnection(marchingCube->GetOutput(1));<br>
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vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> outlineMapper = vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();<br>
outlineMapper->SetInputConnection(outline->GetOutputPort());<br>
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vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> data1 = vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();<br>
data1->SetInputConnection(marchingCube->GetOutput(1));<br>
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vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> data2 = vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();<br>
data2->SetInputConnection(marchingCube->GetOutput(2));<br>
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I know that the above lines are not working like this, but I actually do not know how to do that. Right now I have 2 marchingCube instances that do the work for data1/data2 but that should not do the trick.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can't set up two different isocontour surfaces and get two different outputs this way. Using two separate vtkMarchingCubes instances is the right way to go.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Cory</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I hope you can help me<br>
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Greetings<br>
Imre<br>
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